Promises and Dreams: The Emancipation Proclamation 1863 and the March on Washington 1963
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On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. began his speech by declaring, "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity....In a sense we have come...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1588343340
ISBN13:9781588343345
Release Date:January 2012
Publisher:Smithsonian Books (DC)
Length:224 Pages
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