Picking up where March: Book One left off, John Lewis is now one of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who in 1961 rode from Washington D.C or New Orleans, into the segregated United States, to challenge the non-enforcement of Boynton v. Picking up in 1961, it’s hard to imagine these events becoming more tragic. John Lewis’s life as a civil rights activist is compelling and terrifying.Volume 1 took us from Lewis’s youth to 1960. and once Lewis is elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, this 23-year-old will be thrust into the national spotlight, becoming one of the 'Big Six' leaders of the civil rights movement and a central figure in the landmark 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.Īfter picking up March: Book One, I couldn’t stop. But their courage will attract the notice of powerful allies, from Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, March brings the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.Īfter 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.įaced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the young activists of the movement struggle with internal conflicts as well. 'In which each of God's children can live in a society that makes love its highest virtue.The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues! Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, inspired by a 1950s comic book that helped prepare his own generation to join the struggle.

'We do not want violence, and we do not advocate for it.' (151) 'This march will dramatize our struggle, mobilizing support in parts of the country that don't know the problem first-hand.' (148) 'One city continued to earn its label as 'the most segregated city in the South,' subject to so much violence that it was nicknamed 'Bombingham.' (125) 'By appealing to conscience and standing on the moral nature of human existence, nonviolence nurtures the atmosphere in which reconciliation and justice become actual possibilities.' (118) 'We've been cooling off for 350 years-if we cool off any more, we will be in a deep freeze.' (86) 'We're the Freedom Riders and we're in trouble.' (64)

'After fourteen weeks of stand-ins, the city's theater owners had finally agreed to desegregate.' (46)

'I know that an education is important and I hope to get one, but human dignity is the most important thing in my life.' (30)

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