March. Book One
About this book
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 1950s 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. --back flap
Subjects
- african american civil rights workers
- african american legislators
- african american nonfiction
- african americans
- african americans, biography
- amerikanisches englisch
- biography
- biography & autobiography
- brown v. board of education of topeka
- civil rights
- civil rights movement
- civil rights movements
- civil rights movements, united states
- civil rights workers
- comic
- comic books, strips
- comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, biography & memoir
- cultural heritage
- gospel of john
- graphic novels
- history
- legislators
- montgomery advertiser
- new york times bestseller
- nonviolence
- personal memoirs
- political activism
- racial segregation
- sit-ins
- social gospel
- student nonviolent coordinating committee (u.s.)
- united states
- united states congress. house
- united states. congress. house
- united states, congress, house, biography
- united states, race relations
- young adult nonfiction