The Last Holiday

Hardcover • 2012 • English

The Last Holiday

By Gil Scott-Heron

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About the book

In the autumn of 1980, Stevie Wonder invited Gil Scott-Heron and his band to join him on a forty-one-city tour across America. The purpose of the tour, which included a major rally in Washington on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday, was to galvanise popular support for the creation of a national holiday in honour of the great civil rights leader. The Last Holiday is Scott-Heron's fascinating account of what took place and how he came to be there. Raised by his grandmother in ...Show more

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ISBN

9780857863010

Publisher

Canongate Books Ltd

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

The Last Holiday

Format

Hardcover

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