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I really enjoy reading about the Freedom Riders - they are true American heroes. I admire them more than just about anyone. I admire veterans, however, veterans are trained in combat and armed. They know when they are entering a war zone. The Freedom Riders were simply young people who believed in something so strongly they put their lives on the line. Literally, they knew they could DIE if they boarded those buses taking them into the Deep South. They had to be trained by each other to learn ho
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Another gripping, horrifying, important installment of March by John Lewis. The first book had some tender moments, in Lewis' childhood, but in book two, we are fully in the swing of his work with the Civil Rights Movement, the various sit-ins and marches and meetings. You begin to see the true horror of white responses to the protests, the water hoses and dogs, spitting and beating and killing. It's truly horrifying, especially when it's turned on children and pregnant women and even lawyers/ g
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Graphic Novel Book Club, April 2017
I read all three volumes together for the last book club meeting and so all of these reviews are going to end up going together.
Like many people I felt the need to get this book into my hands and the hands of those reading with me as soon as our president decided to slander the wrong congressmen for not understanding how the world worked, or having done enough for it. What I didn't know going into this book, I feel is printed on my heart coming out of it.
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I read all three volumes together for the last book club meeting and so all of these reviews are going to end up going together.
Like many people I felt the need to get this book into my hands and the hands of those reading with me as soon as our president decided to slander the wrong congressmen for not understanding how the world worked, or having done enough for it. What I didn't know going into this book, I feel is printed on my heart coming out of it.
I fe ...more
John Lewis' story continues, with a focus on events from the early 1960s--the Freedom Rides, the big six, and the 1963 March on Washington--interspersed with scenes from Barack Obama's inauguration.
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A must-read if we want to stop repeating history over and over.
Everyone in America needs to read these books.
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