March

Description:

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: sit-ins,  nonviolence,  social gospel,  Montgomery Advertiser,  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,  Gospel of John,  racial segregation,  Legislators,  civil rights workers,  civil rights movement,  Graphic novels,  history,  biography,  African American Nonfiction,  Young Adult Nonfiction,  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.),  Comic books, strips,  United States,  Civil rights movements,  United States. Congress. House,  African American civil rights workers,  African American legislators,  Civil rights,  African Americans,  Personal Memoirs,  United States Congress. House,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Comic,  Amerikanisches Englisch,  Cultural Heritage,  Political Activism,  Comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, biography & memoir,  African americans, biography,  Civil rights movements, united states,  United states, congress, house, biography,  United states, race relations,  New York Times bestseller

People: John Lewis,  Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968),  Rosa Parks Coreen Harvey,  Ralph Abernathy,  Fred Gray,  James Lawson,  Greensboro Four,  Diane Nash,  Ben West,  Alexander Looby

Places: Tennessee State University,  Greensboro,  North Carolina,  American Baptist Theological Seminary,  First Baptist Church,  Vanderbilt University Divinity School,  Nashville,  United States,  Southern States,  Alabama,  Tennessee,  Kentucky,  Washington D.C.,  Ohio,  Topeka,  Kansas,  Woolworth's,  Buffalo,  New York,  Edmund Pettus,  Pike County,  Bridge,  Selma,  Montgomery

Times: 2009,  1940,  1951,  1958,  1960,  1955