Title
The March on Washington : jobs, freedom, and the forgotten history of civil rights / William P. Jones.
ISBN
9780393082852 (hardcover)
0393082857 (hardcover)
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
Physical Description
xxi, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
A history professor describes the impact and history of the opening speech made during the March on Washington by the trade unionist Philip Randolph whose vision and fight for equal economic and social citizenship began in 1941.
Added to Catalog
August 26, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The most dangerous Negro in America
The march on Washington movement
Rocking the cradle
Jim Crow unions
For jobs and freedom
Battle lines drawn.