“On the Mall in Washington, on a beautiful but blazing hot day in August 1963, an outpouring of thousands gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The people who were speaking were Christians and Jews and labor and civil rights leaders, black and white together. The message to the administration and the American people was that the problem wasn't limited to lunch counters or integrated schools. The March on Washington was a demand to make the Constitution of the United States work for black people—to cash the blank check as Dr. King put it that day in the best speech of his life. Nobody Turn Me Around—Charles Euchner's superb book—brings it all back in vivid detail.”                   

 —Roger Wilkins, author of Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism

Charles Euchner will discuss his new book,

NOBODY TURN ME AROUND:

a People's History of the 1963 March on Washington

(2010, Beacon Press)

                                                                                                                           Wednesday, Sept. 22, 6-7 pm,

at New Haven Public Library, 133 Elm St.

Books will be available for sale and signing.

Charles Euchner received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He served as executive director of the Rappaport Institute at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, coordinating research on urban and regional politics and policy. Euchnor has written widely on public affairs, particularly grassroots politics. He is completing a new book for writers called The Writing Code.  More information at www.euchner.us.