March Book One
- 128
- Pages
- about 2.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“March Book One” is an accessible, compelling graphic memoir that makes the early civil rights movement concrete through one young man’s story. John Lewis follows his own path from a boyhood in the rural South to the sit-ins at Nashville’s lunch counters, and keeping to a single life gives the history a clear line. Nate Powell draws it with real invention. It is a strong first book on nonviolent protest, for young readers especially.
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About the book
Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. 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, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president. Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and New York Times best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole). 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.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 9.0 across 200 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 58% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 7.8. That is how 8.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.9 | 21 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 9.0 | 179 | 90% |
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