One of Reader's Digest's Graphic Novels Every Grown-Up Should ReadĮndorsed by NYC Public Schools' NYC Reads 365 program One of YALSA's Outstanding Books for the College Bound One of YALSA's Top 10 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults One of YALSA's Top 10 Great Graphic Novels for Teens Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations. Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. 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. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. 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. Now this modern classic - praised by everyone from President Bill Clinton to LeVar Burton to Tim Cook - gets the deluxe, oversized hardcover treatment, so the stunning work of Lewis, Aydin, and Powell can be appreciated on a grander scale.

Created by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, this #1 New York Times bestseller is also a Coretta Scott King Honor book, a required text in classrooms across America, and the first graphic novel to win a Robert F. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.īook Synopsis The groundbreaking graphic-novel memoir by a living legend of the civil rights movement, March: Book One, is now available in an oversized hardcover edition. About the Book 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.

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