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Lewis, J. Patrick , Lyon, George Ella

Voices from the March on Washington

114 pp. | Boyds/Wordsong | October, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-1-62091-785-5 $15.95

(2) 4-6 Poets Lewis and Lyon here give voice to a cross-section of the 250,000 participants of the 1963 March on Washington: from first grader Ruby May Hollingsworth and Aki Kimura, a Japanese American sent to an internment camp during WWII, to Coretta Scott King. Many fine works on the civil rights movement are available; this adds the power of poetic imagination. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2014