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Book SynopsisA NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST SELECTION ? Hailed as an essential reeducation on one of the most consequential events in US history by Ibram X. Kendi, this gripping middle-grade account offers a fresh look at the groundbreaking 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by spotlighting the protest's radical roots and the underappreciated role of Black womenincludes a wealth of contemporary black-and-white photos throughout.
Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic I Have a Dream speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedoma moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest. But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for jobs and freedom NOWnot at some undetermined point in the future. It was a revolutionary march with its own controversies and problems, the themes of which still resonate to this day.
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