March. Book one (Book, 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. ©2013
Edition/Format:   Print book : Biography : English : Three-volume collected slipcase editionView all editions and formats
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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc
Coretta Scott King Award (Author): Honor book
comic strips
comic books
Biographical comics
Comics (Graphic works)
Graphic novels
Historical comics
Nonfiction comics
Comic books, strips, etc
Bandes dessinées biographiques
Bandes dessinées historiques
Bandes dessinées autres que de fiction
Bandes dessinées
Cartoons and comics
Biography Comic books, strips, etc
Biography Cartoons and comics
Biographies Bandes dessinées
Named Person: John Lewis; Martin Luther King, Jr.; John Lewis; Martin Luther King, Jr.; John Lewis
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell
ISBN: 9781603093002 1603093001
OCLC Number: 973402794
Awards: Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2014
Description: 121 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm
Responsibility: John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell.

Abstract:

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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