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How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington with Marcia Chatelain (Random House, 2026)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington (Pantheon, 2026), the untold story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists who were seen, but barely heard, at the 1963 March on Washington.
There is no shortage of footage immortalizing the men who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, when 250,000 Americans gathered beneath the Lincoln Memorial to call for an end to segregation. There were reverends and rabbis, activists and Rat-Pack icons—and of course the…
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