This volume is gut-wrenching, heart-rending, and shocking.As with Maus, the darkest aspects of humanity are faced head-on in this riveting chapter of John Lewis’s life. I did not expect March: Book Two to be more powerful than March: Book One, but it was. The civil rights movement is obviously gathering steam, but the pressure will need to release across the country somehow… In this role, he works on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where, as one of the “Big Six” leaders, he speaks on the Washington Mall before Martin Luther King Jr.’s infamous I Have a Dream speech. After that harrowing Summer, he becomes the Chairman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). During this experience, unspeakable things happen to the mixed-race members of the Freedom Riders, including incarceration in Mississippi’s Parchman Prison.

Virginia which decreed that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.

Picking up where March: Book One left off, John Lewis is now one of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who in 1961 rode from Washington D.C or New Orleans, into the segregated United States, to challenge the non-enforcement of Boynton v. Picking up in 1961, it’s hard to imagine these events becoming more tragic. John Lewis’s life as a civil rights activist is compelling and terrifying.Volume 1 took us from Lewis’s youth to 1960.

and once Lewis is elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, this 23-year-old will be thrust into the national spotlight, becoming one of the 'Big Six' leaders of the civil rights movement and a central figure in the landmark 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.Īfter picking up March: Book One, I couldn’t stop. But their courage will attract the notice of powerful allies, from Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, March brings the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.Īfter the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence - but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before.įaced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the young activists of the movement struggle with internal conflicts as well. The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues! Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, inspired by a 1950s comic book that helped prepare his own generation to join the struggle.

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