March. Book One (eBook, 2013) [Texas Group Catalog]
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March. Book One

March. Book One

Author: John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell
Publisher: Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2013]
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Autobiographical comics
Comics (Graphic works)
Graphic novels
History
Comic books, strips, etc
Bandes dessinées autobiographiques
Biography Comic books, strips, etc
Biographies Bandes dessinées
Bandes dessinées
Additional Physical Format: Print version:
Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
March.
Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, 2013
(DLC) 2013218903
(OCoLC)855264301
Named Person: John Lewis; John Lewis
Material Type: Biography, Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell
ISBN: 9781603093026 1603093028
OCLC Number: 854853078
Awards: Commended for Coretta Scott King Award (Author) 2014
Commended for Cybils (Graphic Novel Elem/Mid) 2013
Short-listed for Georgia Children's Book Award (Children's Book) 2015
Short-listed for Virginia Readers Choice Award (High School) 2016
Short-listed for Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers 2014
Short-listed for Volunteer State Book Awards (Middle School) 2015
Short-listed for Volunteer State Book Awards (High School) 2015
Short-listed for Sequoyah Book Awards (High School) 2016
Description: 1 online resource : chiefly illustrations
Responsibility: John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, by Nate Powell.

Abstract:

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.
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