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Congressman John Lewis (GA-five) is an American icon, some of the key figures of the civil rights Motion. His dedication 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, and from receiving beatings from state soldiers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the primary African-American president.
Now, to percentage his outstanding Tale with new generations, Lewis items March, a image novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-creator Andrew Aydin and New York Occasions best possible-promoting artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Occasions Guide Prize finalist for Swallow Me Complete).
March is a shiny first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong fight for civil and human rights, meditating within the brand new age at the distance traveled for the reason that days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis’ non-public Tale, it additionally displays at the highs and lows of the wider civil rights Motion.
Book One spans John Lewis’ adolescence in rural Alabama, his existence-converting assembly with Martin Luther King, Jr., the delivery of the Nashville Scholar Motion, and their struggle to rip down segregation via nonviolent lunch counter sit down-ins, development to a shocking climax at the steps of Town Corridor.
Many years in the past, John Lewis and different Scholar activists drew suggestion from the 1958 comedian Guide “Martin Luther King and the Sir Bernard Law Tale.” Now, his personal comics carry the ones days to existence for a brand new target audience, attesting to a Motion whose echoes shall be heard for generations.
