#1 New York Times Bestseller Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon and key figure
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. Many
years ago John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. Now his own comics bring those days to life for a
new audience testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations. Winner of
the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Special Recognition #1 Washington Post Bestseller A Coretta
Scott King Honor Book An ALA Notable Book One of YALSA's Top 10 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
One of YALSA's Top 10 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults One of YALSA's Outstanding Books for
the College Bound One of Reader's Digest's Graphic Novels Every Grown-Up Should Read Endorsed
by NYC Public Schools' NYC Reads 365 program Selected for first-year reading programs by
Michigan State University Marquette University and Georgia State University Nominated for
three Will Eisner Awards Nominated for the Glyph Award Named one of the best books of 2013 by
USA Today The Washington Post Publishers Weekly Library Journal School Library Journal
Booklist Kirkus Reviews The Horn Book Paste Slate ComicsAlliance Amazon and Apple
iBooks.
