By: Kelly Starling Lyons
A young girl goes with her father on a trip to Washington D.C. Surrounding her are thousands of African American men, every age, shade of color and career. They all joined in peace to covey to the world the diversity and create a different picture of the Black male. The main character sees the Washington Monument and her father says it was made for thinking and wishing. In the end of the book is the Author’s Note, which is Lyons’ personal story of when she witnessed the March.
I would use this book during when learning about Black history, in February. Everyone talks about Martin Luther King’s speech, which is extremely significant, but I think it is also important to inform my students about more recent and equally influential events. The feeling and purpose of the March was different than that of the gathering during MLK’s speech. It focuses more on the responsibility of citizenship. This picture book also paints the father-daughter relationship in a more positive light that little forms of literature have expressed.
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