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A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington
Beacon Press
July 2010
On Sale: June 29, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 0807000590
EAN: 9780807000595
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
History books record August 28, 1963, as the day when over a
quarter-million people rallied in Washington, in the
first-ever nationally televised demonstration—when Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his iconic "I Have a
Dream" oration. But as Charles Euchner reveals in Nobody
Turn Me Around, the march’s significance is more surprising
and complex than standard treatments allow. With rich oral histories from over one hundred
participants—high-profile civil rights leaders but also
ordinary Americans, like the marcher who won a train ticket
after enduring a brutal jailing—Euchner offers a vivid tale
of that day. Nobody Turn Me Around shows the movement at its
apex, on the verge of achieving historic reform—and 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.
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