Voices from the March on Washington / poems by J. Patrick Lewis & George Ella Lyon.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Honesdale, Pennsylvania : WordSong, an imprint of Highlights, [2014]Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 114 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1620917858
- 9781620917855
- Poems. Selections
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 811.6 L674 | Available | 33111007942440 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 perspective to this tale. As the characters tell their personal stories of this historic day, their chorus plunges readers into the experience of being at the march--walking shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers, hearing Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech, heading home inspired.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-110) and indexes.
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.