Voices from the March on Washington (Hardcover)

from pataustin

At first glance, I was annoyed by the premise of the book: Why, with all the primary documents available, would authors want to make up characters who'd been at the 1963 March on Washington and write poems through their eyes? And then I started reading it and noticing that these imagined voices r...

from eduscapes

Voices from the March on Washington by J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyon is a powerful poem collection providing readers with a wide range of perspectives on this historic day. The poems in this book will transport youth fifty years into the past. Although many books chronicle the events of A...

from Susan.Macura

This book is a number of poems "written" by imaginary people at the March on Washington that occurred on August 28, 1963. There was one line about it being up to people to straighten out the things in our nation's history when we take a wrong turn. Wonderful poems.

from Sullywriter

Perspectives in verse on the March on Washington from participants real and imagined.

from Whisper1

This is an excellent book of stories and poems using some of the actual people at the march on Washington that occurred on August 28, 1963, and some of the poems were written by the authors in order to emphasize the sheer magic of the event. I've read so much about the Civil Rights movement and y...