More Than a Dream

Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

"A frank and perspicuous study of the watershed 1963 event in the Civil Rights Movement . . . Rather than build their thoroughly researched account around Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Williams and Long focus on what went on behind the scenes to organize the one-day March on Washington . . . Numerous photos and news clippings add immediacy to events, and though the main story closes with the dispersal of the crowd at the historic day's end, rich troves of additional facts and questions posed to readers spur further research and reflection. Coherent, compellingly passionate, rich in sometimes-startling and consistently well-founded insights." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"The authors have relied heavily on contemporary newspaper stories, a number of which are reproduced here along with a generous collection of black-and-white photos. Important appended material evidences the authors' deep research (18 pages of notes) and a collection of discussion questions. This is, in short, an indispensable work that belongs in every library." --Booklist, starred review

"Williams and Long do more than retread the well-worn paths of this historic moment in the civil rights movement--they blaze an entirely new trail for our collective understanding of the 1963 March on Washington. More Than a Dream reorients the march's origins, reappraises its demands, and rejuvenates its modern day connections for young readers. Consider this an essential reeducation on one of the most consequential events in US history." --Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist