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March #3 Graphic Novel by John Lewis Autobiography Civil Rights

JOHN LEWIS was Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District Representative and an American icon widely known for his role in the Civil Rights Movement.

As a student at American Baptist Theological Seminary in 1959, John Lewis organized sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1961, he volunteered to participate in the Freedom Rides, which challenged segregation at interstate bus terminals across the South. He was beaten severely by angry mobs and arrested by police for challenging the injustice of Jim Crow segregation in the South.

From 1963 to 1966, Lewis was Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). As Chairman, John Lewis became a nationally recognized leader. Lewis was dubbed one of the Big Six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and at the age of 23, he was an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in August 1963.

In 1964, John Lewis coordinated SNCC efforts to organize voter registration drives and community action programs during the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The following year, Lewis helped spearhead one of the most seminal moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Hosea Williams, another notable Civil Rights leader, and John Lewis led over 600 peaceful, orderly protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. They intended to march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the need for voting rights in the state. The marchers were attacked by Alabama state troopers in a brutal confrontation that became known as \"Bloody Sunday.\" News broadcasts and photographs revealing the senseless cruelty of the segregated South helped hasten the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Despite more than 40 arrests, physical attacks and serious injuries, John Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence. After leaving SNCC in 1966, he continued his commitment to the Civil Rights Movement as Associate Director of the Field Foundation and his participation in the Southern Regional Council\'s voter registration programs. Lewis went on to become the Director of the Voter Education Project (VEP). In 1977, John Lewis was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to direct more than 250,000 volunteers of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency.

In 1981, he was elected to the Atlanta City Council. He was elected to Congress in November 1986 and has served as U.S. Representative of Georgia\'s Fifth Congressional District since then. In 2011 he was awarded the Presidental Medal of Freedom.

Lewis’ 1999 memoir Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, called \"the definitive account of the civil rights movement\" (The Washington Post), won numerous honors, including the Robert F. Kennedy, Lillian Smith, and Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. His subsequent book, Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change, received for the NAACP Image Award.

His first graphic novel, March (Book One) — co-authored with Andrew Aydin and drawn by Nate Powell — was published by Top Shelf in August 2013, becoming a #1 New York Times and Washington Post bestseller and an award-winning landmark in the graphic novel field. The sequel, March: Book Two, was released in January 2015, and the trilogy concluded with March: Book Three in August 2016. Collectively, the March trilogy has received a staggering array of recognitions, including the National Book Award, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, Coretta Scott King Book Award, Michael L. Printz Award, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, Will Eisner Award, Walter Dean Myers Award, Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, and many other honors.

#1 New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Award for Young People\'s Literature Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Winner of the Will Eisner Award Winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature – Young Adult Category Winner of the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Winner of the Carter G. Woodson Award Winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize

\"March is one of the most important graphic novels ever created — an extraordinary presentation of an extraordinary life, and proof that young people can change the world. I\'m stunned by the power of these comics, and grateful that Congressman Lewis\'s story will enlighten and inspire future generations of readers and leaders.\" — Raina Telgemeier

\"An incredible accomplishment. It is the history of John Lewis, the civil rights movement and his role in it... a book that explains — more deeply than anything else I’ve ever read — the methods and the moral foundations of the civil rights movement, how civil rights activists did what they did and won what they won, and how they had the strength to do it in the most difficult circumstances imaginable.\" —Rachel Maddow

\"I cannot recommend this book enough.\" —Trevor Noah

\"This memoir\'s unique eyewitness view of epochal events makes it essential reading for an understanding of those times—and these.\" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

\"A stirring call to action that’s particularly timely in this election year, and one that will resonate and empower young readers in particular. Essential reading.\" — Booklist (starred review)

\"Simultaneously epic and intimate... These vivid black-and-white visuals soar.\" — School Library Journal (starred review)

\"Lewis has a unique perspective from which to recall these events, and he does so with intimate familiarity and bracing honesty... Powell’s kinetic, fluid black-and-white illustrations create a relentless cascade of words and images that assaults the senses and underscores the brutality of the period. From Maus to Persepolis, graphic-novel memoirs have accounted for a large share of critical acclaim for the comics format, and now that this trilogy is complete, it can stand shoulder to shoulder with any of them.\" — The Horn Book (starred review)

\"A perfect balance of clarity and passion... The narrative reveals the real work of revolution, focusing not just on the well-known events but the behind-the-scenes decision making.\" — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

\"This account of heroism relived, penned with personal and political honesty, is essential reading for tweens through adults.\" —Library Journal (starred review)

\"The closest American peer to Maus has arrived.\" —The Washington Post

\"Extraordinary.\" —The Chicago Tribune

\"Every bit the first two’s equal... An essential story.\" —Austin American-Statesman

\"March: Book Three is more than just a wonderfully executed historical account and terrific educational volume; it\'s a victory tale for the oppressed, an inspiration to anyone victimized by injustice, and a positive and motivational work that sings the praises and virtue of non-violence.\" —Comic Book Resources

\"March may be the best civil rights story ever... I would even put it in the same hallowed category as Art Spiegelman\'s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus.\" —Mashable

By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and death. The only hope for lasting change is to give voice to the millions of Americans silenced by voter suppression: “One Man, One Vote.”

To carry out their nonviolent revolution, Lewis and an army of young activists launch a series of innovative campaigns, including the Freedom Vote, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and an all-out battle for the soul of the Democratic Party waged live on national television.

With these new struggles come new allies, new opponents, and an unpredictable new president who might be both at once. But fractures within the movement are deepening ... even as 25-year-old John Lewis prepares to risk everything in a historic showdown high above the Alabama river, in a town called Selma. -- A 256-page graphic novel with French flaps, 6.5” x 9.5”