| International Standard Book Number |
9780553387261
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780553387254
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| Personal Name |
Chatelain, Marcia, 1979- author aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014133785
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| Title Statement |
How bright the path grows : the untold story of the women who made the March on Washington / Marcia Chatelain.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Untold story of the women who made the March on Washington
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| Edition Statement |
First hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
New York, New York : Pantheon Books, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
pages cm
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| Series Statement |
Everything we see is a shadow ; book 1
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
No High Dress Affair -- A March on Washington -- Home to Harlem -- Don't Forget Rosa Parks! -- Move on Up a Little Higher -- Of We, I Sing -- Au Revoir, Maman -- Lady of the Year -- The Mississippi Way -- The White House is Calling -- Freedom's Worth Talking About -- The Tribute.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the untold story of the pioneering Black women who were seen, but barely heard, at the 1963 March on Washington. There is no shortage of footage immortalizing the men who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, when 250,000 Americans gathered beneath the Lincoln Memorial to call for an end to segregation. There were reverends and rabbis, activists and Rat-Pack icons-and of course the day's headliner, whose prophetic dream of a post-Jim Crow world has forever defined the Civil Rights Movement. But there is no "class photo" of the Black women who helped organize the march, performed on its main stage, or were honored during its Tribute to Negro Women Fighters for Freedom. In How Bright the Path Grows, Marcia Chatelain weaves a gleaming group portrait of these unsung women. Among this cohort were several household names: vaudeville legend Josephine Baker, civil rights activist Rosa Parks, and opera diva Marian Anderson. But many were relative unknowns, including Eva Jessye, the choir director who designed the day's musical program; and Anna Hedgeman, the coordinator who pushed in the eleventh hour for a tribute to Black women's work. The first in a trilogy of histories exploring the long shadow of Dr. King's life and legacy, How Bright the Path Grows is a scintillating group biography, rendering the lives of thirteen Black women visionaries-some famous, others soon to be-in novelistic detail and like never seen before"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Meeting Name |
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Civil rights History 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100199
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American civil rights workers http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91006121
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American women civil rights workers http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006796
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women civil rights workers United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006797
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Civil rights demonstrations Washington (D.C.) History 20th century
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Race relations History 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100028
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies
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