This Is the Day, the march on Washington

Title: This Is the Day, the march on Washington

Photographer(s): Leonard Freed

Writer(s): Julian Bond, Michael Eric Dyson, Paul M. Farber

Designer(s): Jeffrey Cohen

Publisher(s): Getty Publications, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Year: 2013

Print run:

Language(s): English

Pages: 128

Size: 23 x 24 cm

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Edition:

Print: Printed in China

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: U.S.A., 1963-1964

ISBN: 9781606061213

Never before published in book form, the seventy-five photographs in this volume were chosen from among the hundreds of images that Freed made in the nation’s capitol before, during, and after the march. These images not only present us with stunning wide-angle views of hundreds of thousands of marchers overflowing the National Mall but also focus on small groups of people straining to see the speakers and on individual faces, each one filled with hope and yearning, epitomized by the beautiful young woman who throws her entire being into singing “We Shall Overcome.”