Within a year the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had been passed: “It does not change everything. King, and particularly on that fateful day in Washington. With stirring original artwork mixed with photographs of the events (and the segregationist policies in the South, such as separate drinking fountains and entrances to public buildings), Ruffin writes of how an end to slavery didn’t mark true equality and that these rights had to be fought for-through marches and sit-ins and words, particularly those of Dr. More than 250,00 people are pouring into the city.” They have come to protest the treatment of African-Americans here in the US. It is a hot summer day in Washington, D.C.
Ruffin gives the book a good, dramatic start: “August 28, 1963.
This early reader is an excellent introduction to the March on Washington in 1963 and the important role in the march played by Martin Luther King Jr.
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