A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington [Hardcover]

Winner of theJane Addams Children's Book Award

A singular, richly illustrated picture book biography of Bayard Rustin, the gay Black man behind the March on Washington of 1963, by the acclaimed authors ofUnspeakable: the Tulsa Race MassacreandPride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag.

On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there and then that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement.

Every movement has its unsung heroes: individuals who work in the background without praise or accolades, who toil and struggle without notice. One of those unsung heroes was at the center of some of the most important decisions and events of the Civil Rights Movement.

That hero was a quiet man, a gay African American man. He was Bayard Rustin.

Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders'sA Song for the Unsung,featuring illustrations from artist Byron McCray, is an inspiring story that answers one of our nations greatest calls to action by honoring one of the men who made it happen.

A splendid tribute to a true hero of the civil rights movement. Booklist,starred review

Carole Boston Weatherford, a two-time NAACP Image Award winner, has authored more than sixty books, including the Newbery Honor title Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom and four Caldecott Honor Books, among themMoses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to FreedomandUnspeakable: the Tulsa Race Massacre. She is a professor at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.

Rob Sandersis a former elementary school teacher who writes funny and fierce fiction and nonfiction. He is recognized as one of the pioneerslc+