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Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade
Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long
Illustrator: Xia Gordon
Ages: 6+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-6659-0278-6
Keywords: History-racial violence, NAACP, protests, economic inequality, terse, staccato verse
In New York City in 1917, the civil rights leader who wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing" organized a silent protest march of 10,000 people in response to the East St. Louis Massacre. Expressive digital illustrations. Authors' notes.