I purchased a copy of this book when it first came out, yet it ended up sitting on my shelf for years. In a way I'm disappointed I didn't read it sooner, yet in another I'm glad I waited until now, because this volume is an inspirational read in these times. It helps to remember that hatred, injusti...
This is one of the books I left as "currently reading" when I took my break from BookLikes. You can find my full review of it here at The Itinerant Librarian.
I read this for one of my summer classes. We had to read and annotate 10 comics/graphic novels. Here's the annotation I wrote for that class: Alternating between Barack Obama’s inauguration day and defining moments in John Lewis’s past, March: Book One tells the story of Lewis’s childhood and his ...
I have to say that this graphic novel was fantastic. I loved the writing and the art. I cannot wait to get book #2. "March: Book #1" follows Congressman John Lewis is John Lewis's first hand account of the American Civil Rights Movement. We follow Lewis's family and his first meeting with Dr. Martin...
The final book in the March trilogy takes on the Selma march as the main plotline, but also shows how the differing CRM groups had conflicting agendas and intra-fighting led Lewis away from SNCC and towards working with all the groups. He also takes on the bombing of the church that killed four youn...