March

Resource Information

The work March represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Berlin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

March

Statement of responsibility

[written by] John Lewis, Andrew Aydin ; [illustrated by] Nate Powell

Creator

• Lewis, John, 1940-2020

Contributor

• Powell, Nate
• Aydin, Andrew

Author

• Aydin, Andrew

Illustrator

• Powell, Nate

Subject

• African Americans -- Civil rights
• Autobiographical comics
• Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History
• Civil rights workers -- Biography
• Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels
• Legislators -- Biography
• Lewis, John, 1940-2020
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- Biography
• United States, Congress | House -- Biography
• African American civil rights workers -- Biography
• African American legislators -- Biography

Genre

• Graphic novels
• Biography
• Autobiographical comics

Language

eng

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 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 -- From cover flaps

Awards note

• Book One: Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2014.
• Book Three: Coretta Scott King Author Winner, 2017.

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

IEP

Dewey number

• 328.73/092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels