What was the March on Washington?
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What was the March on Washington?
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Physical Description:
104 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, photos ; 20 cm.
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What was ...?
Summary:
Describes the 1963 March on Washington, helmed by Martin Luther King, Jr., where over two hundred thousand people gathered to demand equal rights for all races, and explains why this event is still important in American history today.
Contents:
Separate and not equal -- The power of marches -- JFK -- No detail too small -- A crowd gathers ... and gathers -- Millions of footsteps -- A wealth of words -- "We shall overcome".
Additional Credits:
Audience/Lexile:
900 L
Reading Program:
ACCELERATED READER, INTEREST= GRADES 5-8 BOOK LEVEL= 6.1 POINTS= 1 SD QUIZ 157223 ENGLISH NON-FICTION.
Publication Information:
New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c2013.
Subject:
| Civil rights demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature. |
| African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature. |
| March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.) -- Juvenile literature. |
| Great March on Washington (1963 : Washington, D.C.) |
SAILS ISBN:
9780448462875
9780448465784
9781338132229
9780545640299