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March. Book one / John Lewis ; [co-written by] Andrew Aydin ; [art by] Nate Powell.

Lewis, John, 1940- (Author). Aydin, Andrew, (author.). Powell, Nate, (artist.).

Summary:

This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman 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 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. 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 D.C., and from receiving beatings from state troopers, to receiving the Medal of Freedom awarded to him by Barack Obama, the first African-American president -- From cover flaps.

Record details

ISBN: 9781603093002
ISBN: 1603093001
ISBN: 9781480625006
ISBN: 1480625000
ISBN: 9781484402597
ISBN: 1484402596
Physical Description: 121 pages : black-and-white illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

General Note:	"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."--Back cover flap.
Awards Note:	Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2014