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March volume 2
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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. Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the young activists of the movement struggle with internal conflicts as well. But their courage will attract...
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A Life in Pictures (SCPL)
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Black Authors: Youth Nonfiction (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month (WPLD)
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Black Authors: Youth Nonfiction (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month (WPLD)
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This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his 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 Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
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