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]
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This graphic novel trilogy is a first-hand account of Congressman 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 Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Comics (Graphic works)
History
Comic books, strips, etc
Biography Comic books, strips, etc
Biography Juvenile literature Comic books, strips, etc
Juvenile literature Comic books, strips, etc
Biographies Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Bandes dessinées
Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Bandes dessinées
Bandes dessinées
Named Person: Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King, Jr.
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell
ISBN: 9780606324366 0606324364
OCLC Number: 1052470239
Notes: Cover title.
Description: 1 volume : illustrations ; 25 cm
Responsibility: written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin ; art by Nate Powell.

Abstract:

This graphic novel trilogy is a first-hand account of Congressman 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 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. Book two takes place after the Nashville sit-in campaign. 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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