Overview
- Summary
- This graphic novel trilogy 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. Book two takes place after the Nashville sit-in campaign. 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.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2013]-[2016]
©2013-2016 - Locale
- United States
Southern States - Contents
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Book One
Book Two
Book Three. - Notes
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Book One -- Book Two -- Book Three.
Book One Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2014
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606324366
0606324364
9781603093002
1603093001
9780606365475
0606365478
9781603094009
1603094008
9781603094023
1603094024 - Physical Description
- 3 volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Legislators--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature--Comic books, strips, etc. African American legislators--Biography--Juvenile literature--Comic books, strips, etc. Civil rights workers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature--Comic books, strips, etc. African American civil rights workers--Biography--Juvenile literature--Comic books, strips, etc. African Americans--Civil rights--Juvenile literature--Comic books, strips, etc. Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--Juvenile literature--Comic books, strips, etc. Civil rights movements--United States--Juvenile literature--Comic books, strips, etc. Graphic novels. Comics (Graphic works) Autobiographies. Lewis, John,--1940-2020--Juvenile literature--Comic books, strips, etc. Lewis, John,--1940 February 21- United States.--Congress.--House--Biography--Juvenile literature--Comic books, strips, etc. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)--Biography--Juvenile literature--Comic books, strips, etc. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) United States.--Congress.--House. United States--Congress--House--Biography--Juvenile literature--Comic books, strips, etc.
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