I have a dream that I can go back to my home, that I can go back to New Orleans.
I have a dream, a dream filled with hopes.
I hope my daddy is safe.
I hope we can have a clean New Orleans again, that New Orleans can go back to the way it was.
I hope that all the people will be safe and protected.
I Have A Dream.

This was the dream shared by the 2005-2006 kindergarten class at New Orleans West KIPP Academy in Houston - children who had just fled everything familiar in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Five years later, for many of Katrina's children and families home is still not back to the way it was. New roadblocks keep appearing on the road to recovery. As the recent report The New Orleans Index at Five puts it, "It has been often said that New Orleanians are resilient. They have to be after being dealt three crises in five years - Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches, the Great Recession and n.
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The 1963 March got off to a rocky start
By GEORGE E. CURRY
NNPA

The dueling events on the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom have ended, but astoundingly little is known about the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that at several times threatened to derail the march where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech.

Fortunately, a new book, Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington by Charles Euchner (Beacon Press) fills in some of the blanks. Although other books have chronicled the March on Washington, none provide the rich details contained in Euchner's compelling book.

On May 15, A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Pullman Porters, announced an Emancipation March on Washington, then scheduled for October. He called a meeting to enlist the support of other civil rights leaders: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP; the National Urban League's Whitney Young; Dr. Marti.
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