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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780807001554
On August 28, 1963, over a quarter-million people—two-thirds
black and one-third white—held the greatest civil rights
demonstration ever. In this major reinterpretation of the Great
Day—the peak of the movement—Charles Euchner brings back the
tension and promise of the march. Building on countless interviews,
archives, FBI files, and private recordings, this hour-by-hour
account offers intimate glimpses into the lives of those key
players and ordinary people who converged on the National Mall to
fight for civil rights in the March on Washington.
Prologue: The Longest March
Part 1: Night unto Dawn
Part 2: Into the Day
Part 3: Congregation
Part 4: Dream
Part 5: Onward
Acknowledgments
x“Euchner has turned the March on Washington into a ‘people’s
history.’ Compelling and dramatic, this book is an important
contribution.”—Juan Williams, author of Eyes On The Prize and news
analyst for NPR and Fox News
“A sharp, riveting depiction of what Martin Luther King called
the greatest demonstration for freedom in the nation’s
history.”—Kirkus
“The March on Washington was a demand to make the Constitution of
the United States work for black people—to cash the blank check, as
Dr. King put it that day …Euchner’s superb book brings it all back
in vivid detail.”—Roger Wilkins, author of Jefferson’s Pillow
”‘We must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force
with soul force,’ said King near the end of the long, hot day.
Euchner’s dignified book reflects that kind of power.”—James
Sullivan, The Boston Globe
”The pages crackle and vibrate with the voices of unsung heroes
who drove, flew, rode buses and trains, hitchhiked, even walked
long distances to be there in the Great Emancipator’s stone shadow
as Dr. King spun out his immortal ‘Dream.’”—John Egerton, author of
Speak Now Against the Day
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