Lewis, John, 1940-2020

March. Book one [book group discussion kit] John Lewis ; [co-written by] Andrew Aydin ; [art by] Nate Powell.

KIT YB LEWIS 2013

Book group discussion kit.

Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, ©2013.

10 copies in bag + folder of questions.

This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his 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 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.

Lewis, John, 1940-2020.

African American civil rights workers -- Biography.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Biography.

Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.

Civil rights movements -- United States.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Autobiographies -- Young adult material.

Book group discussion kits, Young adult.

Graphic novels.

Aydin, Andrew.

Powell, Nate, illustrator.

March, 1

Kit intended for use by book groups.

Books are accompanied by questions for book group discussion.

Virginia Readers' Choice nominee 2015/16 (High school)

Coretta Scott King honor award, 2014.

"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."--Back cover flap.

9781603093002 (paperback)

1603093001 (paperback)

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