John Lewis

March: Book One

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 sharecropper's 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., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turtleback
• Bound for Schoo
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 169mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780606324366
• ISBN-10: 0606324364
• Artikelnr.: 39396559

Autorenporträt

John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell

Rezensionen

"Brave acts of civil disobedience... [give] March its educational value even as Powell's drawings give Lewis's crisp narration an emotional power." The New York Times

"A riveting and beautiful civil-rights story Lewis's gripping memoir should be stocked in every school and shelved at every library." The Washington Post

"Essential reading... March is a moving and important achievement... the story of a true American superhero." USA Today