A collection of poems inspired by the 1963 March on Washington weaves together the voices of multiple witnesses, from a woman singing through a terrifying bus ride, to a teen who marched because he was ordered to stay away, to a child riding on his father’s shoulders in the crowd. Reprint.
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.