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Also by Charles Euchner:

Nobody Turn Me Around, July 2010
Hardcover
Little League, Big Dreams, August 2006
Hardcover

NOBODY TURN ME AROUND
By: Charles Euchner

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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All Things Considered - August 28, 2010