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March. Book one /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Lewis, John, March ; bk. 1.Publisher: Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, 2013Description: 121 pages : black-and-white illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781603093002
  • 1603093001
  • 9781480625006
  • 1480625000
  • 9780606324366
  • 0606324364
  • 9781484402597
  • 1484402596
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 741.5 23
LOC classification:
  • E840.8.L43 A3 2013
Awards:
  • Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2014
Summary: 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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YA YA Chamberlin Free Public Library Young Adult YA B LEW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000549158

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.

Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2014

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