Bibliograph

March, Book One, John Lewis ; [co-written by] Andrew Aydin ; [art by] Nate Powell

Type

Label

March, Book One, John Lewis ; [co-written by] Andrew Aydin ; [art by] Nate Powell

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

March

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

855264301

Responsibility statement

John Lewis ; [co-written by] Andrew Aydin ; [art by] Nate Powell

Series statement

March, bk. 1

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 4.6.

Sub title

Book One

Summary

This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his 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 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

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