March on Washington

Compiled by Dorothy Ann Washington, Black Cultural Center Librarian, Purdue University

"40 years later .. . Have we overcome yet?" Ebony, August 2003, 164-169.

Bennett, Lerone, Jr. "The day they marched:  the 40th Anniversary of the March on Washington." 
Ebony August 2003, 150-163.

D'Emilio, John. "Invisible man: Bayard Rustin worked behind the scenes to make the March on Washington
the largest in U.S. history." New Crisis August 2003, 32-35.

Garrow, David J.Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
1st ed. New York: W. Morrow, 1986.
      
     Chapter 5 focuses on Birmingham and the March on Washington

     Black Cultural Center 323.40924 K5858 G194 c.2

Garrow, David J. "King: the march, the man, the dream." 

     Available at http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/civilrights/anniversary/garrow.htm 

Haskins, James. The March on Washington. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
 
     Black Cultural Center 323.119607309046 H273m 1993 (Juvenile collection)


Height, Dorothy I. "We wanted women to be heard: Black women and the 1963 March on Washington."
In Sisters in the struggle: African American women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement, ed.
Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin, 83-91. New York: London: New York University Press, 2001.

     Black Cultural Center 323.11960730922 Si84 2001

"The March on Washington, August 28, 1963. 1 sound disc. [s.l.]: Council for United Civil Rights
Leadership, 1963.

Featuring speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, President Kennedy, and others ; and songs by Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and others.
Contents: We shall overcome (Joan Baez) -- President Kennedy - Press Conference -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Complete 
speech -- He's got the whole world in His hands (Marian Anderson) -- Oh! Freedom (Odetta) -- Rabbi Joachim Prinz - Complete
speech -- Ballad of Medgar Evers (Bob Dylan) --Speeches from James Farmer ; Whitney M. Young ; John Lewis ; Roy Wilkins ;
Walter Reuther -- Hammer song (Peter, Paul and Mary) -- The demands (Bayard Rustin) -- The pledge (A. Philip Randolph) --
We shall overcome (Joan Baez) 


Lewis, John, and Michael D'Orso. Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement. 
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

     Black Cultural Center 328.73092 L587B 1999


Yette, Frederick Walton, and Samuel F. Yette. Washington and two marches 1963 and 1983 : the third American 
revolution. Silver Spring, Md.: Cottage Books, 1984.

     Black Cultural Center 973.922 Ye48w