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I woke up to the news that John Lewis passed away. I was stunned, sad, and a little sorry that I hadn’t yet read books two or three of his memoirs (told in graphic novel form). I decided it would be a fitting tribute to read this book today.
These books are not the whitewashed version of the civil rights movement I got in school. There is something about the illustrations of firebombed buses and police brutality that makes these real events even more real to us in later generations; history truly ...more
These books are not the whitewashed version of the civil rights movement I got in school. There is something about the illustrations of firebombed buses and police brutality that makes these real events even more real to us in later generations; history truly ...more
In this second volume of the March Trilogy, John Lewis finishes up with the Freedom Riders and moves on through the March on Washington in 1963.
As in the first volume, the text is historically accurate (which means there are words here that are raw and unfiltered, just as the activists heard them). The artwork is also raw. Stark and uncompromising, the images are meant to viscerally inform, not to give a pretty picture of how it was for those who literally risked their lives for future generati ...more
As in the first volume, the text is historically accurate (which means there are words here that are raw and unfiltered, just as the activists heard them). The artwork is also raw. Stark and uncompromising, the images are meant to viscerally inform, not to give a pretty picture of how it was for those who literally risked their lives for future generati ...more
A must-read if we want to stop repeating history over and over.
Everyone in America needs to read these books.
These are fantastic graphic novels-I enjoyed this one as much as the first book. The pictures with the story makes this history more real somehow. (Popsugar: a book with a month or day of the week in the title)
Dec 10, 2016
Molly
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Brenda
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