Civil Rights Movement Peaks In March Book Three

John Lewis, the Democratic Congressman from Georgia, has been at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement since his days as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s, and in his graphic novel trilogy March he has powerfully recreated the turbulent struggle to secure equal rights for African Americans in the South and nationwide.

The March trilogy concludes this summer in March Book Three GN (JUN160408), taking the story of the Civil Rights Movement from the summer and autumn of 1963, including the famous March on Washington, through the Mississippi Freedom Summer and the important March on Selma that culminated in "Bloody Sunday" when Alabama state troopers brutally attacked the peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

The graphic images of the violence would shock the nation and give renewed strength to the Civil Rights movement, and Lewis, along with cowriter Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, capture this powerful moment in the March Book Three GN. The work of the Civil Rights Movement is still incomplete, a half-century since Bloody Sunday, and with March Lewis reflects on how the actions of a few became a movement that continues to work tirelessly to fulfill the promise of America, where all are created equal.

Look for March Book Three GN (JUN160408) in the June edition of the PREVIEWS catalog!