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		March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.) -- Juvenile poetry.
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Voices from the March on Washington : poems / by J. Patrick Lewis & George Ella Lyon.

by Lewis, J. Patrick.

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WordSong/Highlights, c2014.

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.

9781620917855 (hbk.)

1620917858 (hbk.)

xiv, 114 pages ; 22 cm.

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-110) and indexes.

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.

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.

Children's poetry, American.

Children's poetry.

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