Deze bekroonde graphic novel-trilogie presenteert een aangrijpend autobiografisch verslag van het leven van een van de meest cruciale leiders van de Amerikaanse burgerrechtenbeweging. Volg zijn reis van een bescheiden begin op het platteland van Alabama tot zijn beslissende rol in de strijd voor gelijkheid en rechtvaardigheid. De werken beelden historische gebeurtenissen meesterlijk uit door middel van persoonlijke ervaringen, benadrukken de kracht van geweldloos verzet en verwijzen naar de blijvende impact van de beweging op de moderne samenleving.
A graphic novel memoir of a legend of the civil rights movement. Created by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, it is also a Coretta Scott King Honor book, a required text in classrooms across America, and the first graphic novel to win a Robert F Kennedy Book Award.
Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) 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. Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and New York Times best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole). 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. Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations
After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence - but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before
This commemorative set features all three volumes of a celebrated trilogy, recognized for its award-winning narrative and New York Times bestsellers status. The stunning new slipcase, designed by Nate Powell and Chris Ross, adds a visual appeal enhanced by the coloring of José Villarrubia, making it a perfect collection for fans and newcomers alike.