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Beacon Press
256 pages
Product Description
<DIV><DIV><DIV>History books record August 28, 1963, as the day when over a quarter-million people rallied in Washington, in the first-ever nationally televised demonstrationwhen Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" oration. But as Charles Euchner reveals in <I>Nobody Turn Me Around, </I>the march’s significance is more surprising and complex than standard treatments allow. <P></P><P></P>With rich oral histories from over one hundred participantshigh-profile civil rights leaders but also ordinary Americans, like the marcher who won a train ticket after enduring a brutal jailingEuchner offers a vivid tale of that day. <I>Nobody Turn Me Around </I>shows the movement at its apex, on the verge of achieving historic reformand decline. The book shows James Farmer watching the march from his jail cell; Malcolm X’s secret vow to help the march, while mocking it from the sidelines; how King really wrote his landmark address; the controversy over John Lewis’s damning speech; and devastating undercurrents involving JFK and J. Edgar Hoover. Each scene comes alive in this richly intimate account of the peak of the civil rights era.<B> <P></P></B></DIV></DIV></DIV>