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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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Martin Luther King Jr. and the
1963 March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington
In a 1963 Gallup poll, Americans listed civil rights as the most important crisis facing the nation. That May in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, firefighters blasted
black marchers with powerful fire hoses. Millions of Americans were becoming outraged at such events, and so too was President John F. Kennedy.
That June the Kennedy Administration worked on a civil rights bill, and Kennedy
himself would urge Congress to pass it. However, Martin Luther King Jr. knew that
southern politicians would do all they could to block such legislation. King told his
advisers that “something dramatic must be done” to support the civil rights bill because “I don’t think it will pass otherwise.”
That “something” would be the March on Washington. Black labor leader A. Philip
Randolph, seventy-four, had dreamed of such a march for decades. On August 28,
it came to fruition, with 250,000 civil rights supporters descending on the nation’s
capital. King, the last of the many speakers that day, delivered his legendary “I
Have a Dream” speech.
This book recounts King’s ascent to the proverbial “mountaintop” as well as the
details of that historic event in Washington. Who made it happen? How did the
marchers get through the muggy afternoon? What was their reaction to King’s
speech? All of these issues, and more, are explored in Martin Luther King Jr. and
the 1963 March on Washington.
David Aretha
David Aretha edited Civil Rights Chronicle and Civil Rights: Yesterday & Today. He
has written eight books in the Civil Rights Movement series published by Morgan
Reynolds, including The Murder of Emmett Till, Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides, and
Selma and the Voting Rights Act.
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Martin Luther King Jr. and the
1963 March on Washington
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Martin Luther King Jr. and the
1963 March on Washington
112 pages © 2013 ............978-1-59935-372-2
David Aretha
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Brown v. Board of Education
128 pages © 2013 ............978-1-59935-370-8
Marching in Birmingham
112 pages © 2008 ............978-1-59935-055-4
Selma and the Voting Rights Act
128 pages © 2008 ............978-1-59935-056-1
The Murder of Emmett Till
160 pages © 2008 ............978-1-59935-057-8
The Trial of the Scottsboro Boys
128 pages © 2008.............978-1-59935-058-5
Freedom Summer
128 pages © 2008 ............978-1-59935-059-2
Montgomery Bus Boycott
128 pages © 2009 ............978-1-59935-020-2
Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides
128 pages © 2009 ............978-1-59935-098-1
Black Power
128 pages © 2012 ............978-1-59935-164-3
Backlash: Race Riots in the Jim Crow Era
128 pages © 2012 ............978-1-59935-183-4
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