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. Rooted in Lewis’ personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.īook 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. Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, March explores Lewis’s early childhood through his young adulthood. 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. March: Book One (2013) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell is the first in the graphic memoir trilogy detailing the life of political activist and US Congressman John Lewis. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powells March is a trilogy that describes the life of John Lewis in an engaging, graphic novel format that will engage even the most reluctant readers. 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: Book One, the first of three written by John Lewis.

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. Some people might perceive a graphic novel as not being that deep, but they would be wrong. Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement.

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