March : book one / John Lewis ; [co-written by] Andrew Aydin ; [art by] Nate Powell.

Lewis, John, 1940-2020, author.

GN 328.73092 Lewis

Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, 2013.

©2013

121 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm.

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.

GN760 L

March ; bk. 1

Lewis, John, 1940-2020. March ; bk. 1.

Lewis, John, 1940-2020 -- Comic books, strips, etc.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.

African American civil rights workers -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.

African American legislators -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic nonfiction.

Graphic novels.

Comics (Graphic works)

Autobiographical comics.

Historical comics.

Nonfiction comics.

Biographical comics.

Aydin, Andrew, author.

Powell, Nate, illustrator.

Small Press Expo Collection (Library of Congress)

"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."--Back cover flap.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.6.

Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 1.0 165513.

Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2014

Carter G. Woodson Honor Book for the Social Studies - Secondary Grade Level, 2017.

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2017

National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2016

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