What Was the March on Washington?
New York : Grosset & Dunlap, [2013]
Format: Book
Description: 105 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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--?
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".
Subjects:
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.) -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.) -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 900L
ISBN:
9780448462875
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C HISTORY US Civil Right Kru | Main (Downtown) | Display, Children's NonFiction | In |
C HISTORY US Civil Right Kru | Northeast Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C HISTORY US Civil Right Kru | Northeast Indoors | Children's NonFiction | Out (Due: 7/3/2024) |
C HISTORY US Civil Rights Kru | Southeast | Children's NonFiction | In |
C HISTORY US Civil Right Kru | Wheatley (Shandon) | Children's NonFiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-105).