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Lewis, J. Patrick.
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.) -- Juvenile poetry.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile poetry
Blacks -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile poetry.
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Lewis, J. Patrick.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.) -- Juvenile poetry.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile poetry
Blacks -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile poetry.
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Voices
from the
March
on
Washington
:
poems
/ by J. Patrick Lewis & George Ella Lyon.
by
Lewis, J. Patrick.
WordSong/Highlights, c2014.
Call #:
811.54 L674v
Subjects
March
on
Washington
for Jobs and Freedom (1963 :
Washington
, D.C.) -- Juvenile poetry.
Civil rights demonstrations --
Washington
(D.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile poetry
Blacks -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile poetry.
ISBN:
9781620917855 (hbk.)
1620917858 (hbk.)
Edition:
1st. ed.
Description:
xiv, 114 pages ; 22 cm.
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-110) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction -- Reflection -- For all, 1963 -- An imagined summit teo days before the
march
-- The journey -- How -- Among the marchers -- Against the marchers -- Crossing the Potomac -- Arrival / Annie Ross -- The watch / Raymond Jarvis -- Ioways / Emma Wallace -- The real question -- But they did -- Bayard Rustin -- Motivation / Dan Cantrell -- My pa / Emma Wallace -- Breakfast / Ruby May Hollingsworth -- The ride / Raymond Jarvis -- Glory and despair -- Hitching / Dan Cantrell -- The blind leading... -- Lena -- My dream / Raymond Jarvis -- Grace -- "Movement" / Emma Wallace -- Halley Liza Clemons -- Token -- Doubts / Renee Newsome -- Things to do the
march
/ Renee Newsome -- At he
Washington
monument Dan Cantrell -- Watching / Ruby May Hollingsworth -- "M" -- My own particular heart / Emma Wallace -- Fountain / Ruby May Hollingsworth -- A. Philip Randolph -- Up close / Annie Ross -- The U.S. of anywhere but home / Emma Wallace -- Me, too -- Creed -- Lessons / Emma Wallace -- Tina's got to...-- Pigs are flyin' -- One-eyed doll -- Anthem for Rosa Parks -- Other
voices
-- Mr. Ravizee -- Commitment bound in joy -- Moving / Annie Rose -- Polly / Emma Wallace -- Riding high / Ruby May Hollingsworth -- First impressions / Raymond Jarvis -- Make a tomorrow / Dan Cantrell -- Daddy calls / Renee Newsome -- I get it / Dan Cantrell -- A new world -- Turn -- Where's Langston? / Renee Newsome -- Joan Baez -- Ballad for Martin Luther King Jr. -- Coretta Scott King -- American dream -- Stunned / Renee Newsome -- Tree / Dan Cantrell -- What happened to my heart / Annie Ross -- What comes next -- Questions I ask myself on the bus ride home / Raymond Jarvis -- Darryl / Renee Newsome -- I wasn't there -- Answers / Raymond Jarvis -- Dear Renee / Marcella "grandma Rascal" Reese -- August 28, 2013 / Emma Wallace -- At grandma Rascal's grave, January 19, 2015 / Renee Newsome-Wade -- Last impressions.
Summary:
Six fictional characters, in cycles of linked
poems
, relate their memories of the historic day in 1963 when more than 250,000 people from across the United States joined together to
march
on
Washington
, D.C., calling for civil and economic rights for African Americans.
Audience:
Grade 4-7.
Genre:
Children's poetry, American.
Children's poetry.
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