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Summary: The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the young child riding above the crowd on her father's shoulders, each voice brings a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LEWWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSWilliams, Yohuru
Summary: "Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--a moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest. But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for jobs and freedom NOW--not at some undetermined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.48 WILFreedman, Russell
Summary: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Freedman presents a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J323.1196 FREClark-Robinson, Monica
Summary: Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, children and teenagers march against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CLAHarris, Duchess
Summary: "The March on Washington was the largest protest gathering in the American civil rights movement. Thousands of protesters marched on Washington, DC, in 1963. They demanded equal rights for African Americans. The March on Washington and Its Legacy explores the legacy of this iconic march."--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J323.1196 HARMarch, Marion D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ACS Publications 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.5 MARZamoyski, Adam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 ZAMMarch, Ray A.
Summary: "Ray A. March exposes a story of mass murder, a community's racism, and tribal treachery in a small Paiute tribe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MARMarch, John S.
Summary: "No one wants to get rid of obsessive-compulsive disorder more than someone who has it. That's why Talking Back to OCD puts kids and teens in charge. Dr. John March's eight-step program has already helped thousands of young people show the disorder that it doesn't call the shots--they do."--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guilford Press 2007
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Summary: Draws on the oral histories of more than one hundred participants to provide a behind-the-scenes look at the historic 1963 March on Washington that culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.3 EUCNevin, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 TIM VOL 21Dahl, Michael
Summary: How many ways do we move around? Explore five different kinds of Creative Movement in Locomotion! March, Hop, Skip, Gallop, Run.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cantata Learning 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.7 DahCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAHTrudeau, Noah Andre
Summary: Award-winning Civil War historian Trudeau has written a fascinating new history of Sherman's legendary and devastating march through Georgia. Told through diaries and letters of Sherman's soldiers, this work paints a vivid picture of an event that changed the course of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.737 TRULong, Michael G.
Summary: "This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSMcGinty, Alice B.
Summary: Documents the 1930 Satyagraha protest movement, describing how Gandhi led a twenty-four-day march to the sea to demonstrate against Great Britain's salt tax while offering insight into his beliefs about non-violent civil disobedience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Children's Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GANBrotherton, Marcus
Summary: "Inspired by a true story, three best friends from Mobile, Alabama are captured in the Philippines during WWII--they vow to return home together. They struggle to survive against impossible odds in an ordeal that becomes known as the Bataan Death March"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BrothertonSun, Shuyun.
Summary: The Long March is Communist China's founding myth. Seventy years afterwards, Sun Shuyun set out to retrace its steps and discovered the true history behind the legend. The facts: in 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by the Nationalists. After that, truth and legend begin to blur: led by Mao Zedong, the Communists set off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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Summary: Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 NORBolick, Kate
Summary: On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel--what it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.4 BOLSchwartz, Heather E.
Summary: "Uses primary sources to tell the story of the March on Washington during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Civil SchwartzHenderson, Leah
Summary: "For generations, marches have been an invaluable tool for bringing about social change. People have used their voices, the words on their signs, and the strength in their numbers to combat inequality, oppression, and discrimination. They march to call attention to these wrongs and demand change and action, from a local to a global scale. Whether demanding protective laws or advocating for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.48 HENWright, Stephen L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WRIEnglund, Will
Summary: "A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I. "We are provincials no longer," said Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance into World War I, as Russia teetered between autocracy and democracy. Just ten days after Wilson's declaration, Tsar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017