March
Subtitle: Book One
By: John Lewis ; co-written by Andrew Aydin ; art by Nate Powell
Contributors: Powell, Nate; Aydin, Andrew
Edition: 3rd printing
Series: March, #1
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Published: 2014-05
Place of publication: Marietta, GA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781603093002
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Graphic novels; Comic books, strips; United States; Civil rights movements; United States. Congress. House; Biography
Other titles: 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