Promises and Dreams: The Emancipation Proclamation 1863 and the March on Washington 1963

by Harry R. Rubenstein and Lonnie G. Bunch III

On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. began his speech by declaring, "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity....In a sense we have come...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588343340
• ISBN13: 9781588343345
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 224 Pages