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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Congressman John Lewis Georgia is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecroppers 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. 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.
About the Author
ANDREW AYDIN is creator and co-author of the #1 New York Times best-selling graphic memoir series, MARCH, which chronicles the life of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. Co-authored with Rep. Lewis and illustrated by Nate Powell, MARCH is the first comics work to ever win the National Book Award, and is a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Book Award, the Printz Award, the Sibert Medal, the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Will Eisner Comics Industry Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Special Recognition, and the Walter Award, among others. The Washington Post heralded the completion of the MARCH trilogy, saying, "the closest American peer I've found to Maus has arrived."
Following MARCH, Aydin wrote the 2016 X-Files Annual (IDW) and contributed to an upcoming issue of Bitch Planet (Image) as well as the 2016 CBLDF Annual Liberty (Image) .
