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Loading... March: Book One (original 2013; edition 2013)by John Lewis (Author), Andrew Aydin (Author), Nate Powell (Illustrator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This should be required reading in every school - every household! It shows how peaceful protests changed America. The illustrations are fantastic, and the history tells how Americans made a difference without starting riots. I like the movement from the present to the past and back again brings the relevance of history to present day. ( ) Only read for the part about his childhood... preaching to the chickens. That part was worth squinting for. Drawings too dark and font too small for my old eyes. Why do graphic artists do that to us? Or is it partly the fault of the publishers who can't be bothered to make the book full size? (Though in this case it would have to have been an oversize coffee table book.) no reviews | add a review
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HTML: Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president.Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and New York Times best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole).March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations. .No library descriptions found. |
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