March Book one /
This graphic novel 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...
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| Format: | Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel |
| Language: | English |
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Marietta, GA :
Top Shelf Productions,
2013.
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| Series: | March ;
#01 |
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| Online Access: | Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
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| Summary: | This graphic novel 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. 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 Wasiington D.C., and from receiving beatings from state troopers, to receiving the Medal of Freedom awarded to him by Baraka Obama, the first African-American president -- From cover flaps. |
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| Physical Description: | 121 pages : black-and-white illustrations ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781603093002 (acid-free paper) 1603093001 (acid-free paper) 9781480625006 (Paw Prints) 1480625000 (Paw Prints) 9781484402597 1484402596 |
| Author Notes: | Andrew Aydin is creator and co-author of the #1 New York Times best-selling graphic memoir series, MARCH . Co-authored with Rep. Lewis and illustrated by Nate Powell, MARCH is the first comics work to ever win the National Book Award, and is a recipient of the Will Eisner Comics Industry Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Special Recognition, and the Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, among other honors. Aydin's other comics work includes writing the X-Files Annual 2016 (IDW), writing for the CBLDF Liberty Annual 2016 (Image), and writing an upcoming issue of Bitch Planet (Image). Nate Powell is a New York Times best-selling graphic novelist born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978. He began self-publishing at age 14, and graduated from School of Visual Arts in 2000. His work includes MARCH , You Don't Say , Any Empire , Swallow Me Whole , The Silence Of Our Friends , The Year Of The Beasts , and Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero . Powell is the first and only cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award. Powell has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN. |
