More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780374391744)

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST SELECTION ● Hailed as "an essential reeducation on one of the most consequential events in US history" by Ibram X. Kendi, this gripping middle-grade account offers a fresh look at the groundbreaking 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by spotlighting the protest's radical roots and the underappreciated role of Black women--includes a wealth of contemporary black-and-white photos throughout.

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 point in the future. It was a revolutionary march with its own controversies and problems, the themes of which still resonate to this day.

Without diminishing the words of Dr. King, More Than a Dream looks at the march through a wider lens, using Black newspaper reports as a primary resource, recognizing the overlooked work of socialist organizers and Black women protesters, and repositioning this momentous day as radical in its roots, methods, demands, and results. From Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, the acclaimed authors of Call Him Jack, comes a classic-in-the-making that will transform our modern understanding of this legendary event in the fight for racial justice and civil rights.

Author: Yohuru Williams, Michael G. Long
ISBN-10: 0374391742
ISBN-13: 9780374391744
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2023
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.90d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2023
Booklist 08/01/2023 pg. 47
School Library Journal 08/18/2023 pg. 1
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2023 pg. 113