March: Book Three
Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.
By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and death. The only hope for lasting change is to give voice to the millions of Americans silenced by voter suppression: "One Man, One Vote."
To carry out their nonviolent revolution, Lewis and an army of young activists launch a series of innovative campaigns, including the Freedom Vote, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and an all-out battle for the soul of the Democratic Party waged live on national television.
With these new struggles come new allies, new opponents, and an unpredictable new president who might be both at once. But fractures within the movement are deepening ... even as 25-year-old John Lewis prepares to risk everything in a historic showdown high above the Alabama river, in a town called Selma.
Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
#1 New York Times Bestseller
2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
2017 Michael L. Printz Award Winner
2017 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Winner
2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction - Winner
2017 Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature - Winner
2017 Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Winner
2017 LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature - Finalist
By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and death. The only hope for lasting change is to give voice to the millions of Americans silenced by voter suppression: "One Man, One Vote."
To carry out their nonviolent revolution, Lewis and an army of young activists launch a series of innovative campaigns, including the Freedom Vote, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and an all-out battle for the soul of the Democratic Party waged live on national television.
With these new struggles come new allies, new opponents, and an unpredictable new president who might be both at once. But fractures within the movement are deepening ... even as 25-year-old John Lewis prepares to risk everything in a historic showdown high above the Alabama river, in a town called Selma.
Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
#1 New York Times Bestseller
2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
2017 Michael L. Printz Award Winner
2017 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Winner
2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction - Winner
2017 Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature - Winner
2017 Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Winner
2017 LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature - Finalist
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And the phenomenal story continues. I am so glad that John Lewis put all of this information about the real journey through the Civil Rights Movement. Once again, there are so many details in this book that we are never taught in school. We are taught that it was almost this seamless, easy journey from sit-ins and freedom rides to desegregation. But that journey was FAR from easy! There were so many other pieces of the puzzle that had to come together for anything to happen. And once again, this story being juxtaposed with Obamas inauguration was beautiful! This book starts in September of 1963 and we see much more violence and brutality from sheriffs and policeman. During marches and sit-ins, African Americans practiced nonviolence and peaceful protests but that is not at all how they were treated in return. I can understand why we probably don't teach this in schools but with so much violence already happening in our world, maybe this would be good for more to know about. This book starts by focusing on the efforts to register more African American voters. It is appalling how different they were treated, given huge tests and ridiculous questions to take part in something that should have been an automatic right. It is truly amazing however to see the lengths that they went to in order to register to vote. This book also showed the effect that JFK's assassination had on African Americans and their efforts to integrate and get the right to vote.
This book also showed that even with certain things put into place like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it didn't solve all of the problems. With this act, it didn't ban literacy tests and other voting restrictions so African Americans had to continue to fight for their right to vote. It didn't stop the violence against African Americans - there were still church bombings, shootings, beatings, and thousands of arrests. This book also details Malcolm X's assassination and the march from Selma to Montgomery. Once again, there are so many details that many people don't know enough about and this series is one way to educate. I personally think that this series should be required reading especially with everything going on in the world today. Highly recommend!!
This book also showed that even with certain things put into place like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it didn't solve all of the problems. With this act, it didn't ban literacy tests and other voting restrictions so African Americans had to continue to fight for their right to vote. It didn't stop the violence against African Americans - there were still church bombings, shootings, beatings, and thousands of arrests. This book also details Malcolm X's assassination and the march from Selma to Montgomery. Once again, there are so many details that many people don't know enough about and this series is one way to educate. I personally think that this series should be required reading especially with everything going on in the world today. Highly recommend!!
This is a phenomenal book and a phenomenal series. This should definitely be required reading in high school. Understanding civil rights history is critical to understanding so many problems with current day American democracy, and for those that don't already understand it couldn't be clearer than this.
But even for people who do understand it, this is a really moving and powerful account.
But even for people who do understand it, this is a really moving and powerful account.
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