Williams, 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 WIL

Williams, Yohuru

Summary: Empowering and educational, this nonfiction picture book about James Weldon Johnson, an NAACP leader who wrote the uplifting poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing," shows how he led thousands of Black people in the Silent Protest Parade for civil rights down New York's Fifth Avenue.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024

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Williams, Yohuru R.

Summary: "An enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROB