RT Book, Whole DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 855264301 LA English T1 March : Book One A1 Lewis, John,, Aydin, Andrew,, Powell, Nate,, Small Press Expo Collection (Library of Congress), YR 2013 SN 9781603093002 1603093001 9780606324366 0606324364 9781480625006 1480625000 9781484402597 1484402596 9780605796874 0605796874 AB 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.