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21) March: Book one
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March volume 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
GRAPHIC NOVEL 323.1196 LEWIS
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GRAPHIC NOVEL 323.1196 LEWIS
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN GRAPHIC NOVEL LEWIS 1
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TEEN GRAPHIC NOVEL LEWIS 1
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Description
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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"Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin....