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Author:

Krull, Kathleen.

Title:

What was the March on Washington? / by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Tim Tomkinson.

Publisher:

Grosset & Dunlap

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

105 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Subject:

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)--Juvenile literature.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
1900 - 1999.
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--History--20th century.
Civil rights demonstrations.
African Americans--Civil rights--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans--Civil rights.
Washington (D.C.)
Juvenile works.
Juvenile literature.
History.

Other Authors:

Tomkinson, Tim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-105.)

Contents:

Separate and not equal -- The power of marches -- JFK -- No detail too small -- A crowd gathers ... and gathers -- Millions of footsteps -- A wealth of words -- "We shall overcome".

Summary:

Describes the 1963 March on Washington, helmed by Martin Luther King, Jr., where over two hundred thousand people gathered to demand equal rights for all races, and explains why this event is still important in American history today.

Series:

What was
What was--?

ISBN:

0545640296
9780545640299

Locations:

BLPC611 -- Earlham Public Library (Earlham)

FUPB284 -- Ruth Suckow Memorial Library (Earlville)

WPPB215 -- Everly Public Library (Everly)

CNPC792 -- Montezuma Public Library (Montezuma)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)