Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the March on Washington - Tapa dura

"To say that I was overcome by emotions after reading Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the March on Washington would be an understatement -- particularly as I considered that only 50 years later, Barack Obama serves as president. The eloquence in these 161 pages commanded my attention from beginning to end. Kitty Kelley's essays provide context for stunning, never-before-published photographs by Tretick." --Chicago Tribune "Turn to any page and you're likely to be moved - and reminded of work yet to be done, as Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman manages to do so effectively in her introduction.... Kelley's lean text, respectfully subordinated to the largely joyous, strikingly candid images by her old friend Tretick, vividly evokes a time when this nation was pregnant with both conflict and promise." --Christian Science Monitor "Offers readers an intimate glimpse of a pivotal day 50 years ago in America's civil rights movement." --San Antonio Express-News "A kinetic look at the march, but also a chronicle of the civil rights movement and its leaders, more journalistic in nature, a kind of documentary that appears to be without style or guile. If you have that wish of having been at the march, this is as close as you can get... These are not great pictures. They're something better than that. There are thousands of images that exist of the march. Tretick's photos have the look of news, of in the moment. They are faces caught up close. They show the multitudes carrying a message or rather hundreds of messages." --Georgetowner "Fifty years later, a stirring evocation of the 1963 March on Washington.... Fine photos, concise text, including excerpts from remarks of the day, and a solid view of the Kennedy administration dragged into the American future." --Kirkus "Readers are given an intimate portrait of the weeks leading up to the march, as well as iconic images of the day. Tretick (1921-1999) was a master at capturing his subjects with depth and humanity.... The book is a welcome marker of a seminal moment in American history." --Publishers Weekly "Tretick, famous for his iconic photos of President Kennedy and his family, documents the rising hopes and tensions as blacks and whites pressed for equity and obstructionists fought their efforts.... Kelley provides narrative background and context, including the roles of such iconic figures as Robert Kennedy, Roy Wilkins, James Baldwin, and A. Philip Randolph. This inspirational book also includes excerpts of speeches by King and others." --Booklist

It was a Wednesday - August 28, 1963 - but people wore their Sunday best, despite the heat and humidity. The marchers, black and white, celebrity and unknown, came in droves from all over the nation, heading for the towering spire of the Washington Monument in D.C. All of them shared the same dream: freedom and equality for 19 million African Americans. Almost 300,000 strong, they had come to Washington, D.C., from around the world to bear witness and to petition Congress to pass the President's Civil Rights bill. Stanley Tretick, a seasoned photojournalist of immense talent who had earned his stripes taking many of the most popular photos of President Kennedy and his family, was also in the crowd, drawing inspiration from the historic scenes unfolding before him. In this magnificent book, just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington, his iconic, stirring photographs of that day are collected for the first time. Accompanied by an insightful essay and captions from bestselling author Kitty Kelley that provide a fascinating behind-the-scenes narrative of the March, this beautiful keepsake of a book brings America at her best vibrantly to life.