Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

Title:

A song for the unsung : Bayard Rustin, the man behind the 1963 March on Washington / by Carole Boston Wetherford & Rob Sanders ; illustrated by Byron McCray.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Summary:

"The author of Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom and the author of Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag combine their ... talents for a singular picturebook biography of Bayard Rustin, the gay Black man behind the March on Washington of 1963"-- Provided by publisher.

Target Audience Note:

Ages 6-10. Henry Holt Books for Young Readers.

Grades 2-3. Henry Holt Books for Young Readers.

Subjects:

Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 -- Juvenile literature.

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.) -- Juvenile literature.

Civil rights demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

Civil rights workers -- United States -- Juvenile literature.

African American civil rights workers -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- Songs and music -- Juvenile literature.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.