Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2013]
121 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
I had not planned on reading March just yet, but then current events caught up with history in the strangest of ways, and I knew I had to read it.
March - a graphic novel - recounts the autobiography of the early years of civil rights icon and US Congressperson, John Lewis. We see his boyhood years in Alabama in the 1950s and his growing awareness of the racist injustices that he wants to change. By the end of this first book in the series (click links for more about book 2 and book 3), he is a key activist in the Civil Rights movement in Tennessee, has led lunch counter protests, desegregation marches, and met Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Turns out the Lewis' role in history is not over yet. With the recent election of Donald Trump and his twitter attacks on John Lewis, the Lewis story and the struggle for racial justice are front and center once again. The controversy has not hurt sales of the March. Right after Trump's attacks on Lewis, sales of his book skyrocketed on Amazon. Along with the many prizes that the books in the March series have won (including a National Book Award) the future of this book, at least, looks bright.
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