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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 |
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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. |
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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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