Reviews tagging 'Murder'

March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

9 reviews

laurareads87's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Another excellent installment, as good as the first - here, the emphasis is on the Freedom Rides for the most part, and the lead-up to the March on Washington.  What I really appreciated most about this one was the exploration of internal disagreements within the civil rights movement; here, Lewis captures a range of perspectives on non-violence (as a tactic and as a philosophy), the challenges of trying to maintain alliances across differences in perspective, and, briefly, discrimination within the movement itself (with respect to the unwillingness of some to accept Bayard Rustin's leadership for fear that his sexuality would be used in some way to discredit the movement). Highly recommend this series.

<i>Content warnings:</i> racism, racial slurs, homophobia, hate crime, police brutality, confinement, grief, violence, murder

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Grief, Homophobia, Confinement, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Hate crime, and Racism

lilybear3's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Racism, Death, Police brutality, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Classism, Xenophobia, Bullying, Cursing, and Murder

nitar8's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racism, Murder, Racial slurs, Hate crime, and Violence

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.25

I love the March books and I absolutely believe that they should be required reading. There are aspects of the civil rights movement featured in these books that I was simply never taught in school. Particularly when it comes to the violence and vitriol leveled against Black people. I think it’s also a more thorough depiction of the nonviolence philosophy. Nonviolent, yes, legal, no. I think when some people talk about non-violence now, they imagine something different than what it is. They can’t translate it into modern day nonviolent protests. This book might help remedy that disconnect. My only gripe with the book is that it occasionally felt disjointed, like I wasn’t getting all the information. Sometimes I could fill in the blanks, but not always. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Torture, Confinement, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Outing, Blood, and Homophobia

ukponge's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, and Hate crime

Moderate: Homophobia

puggreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

extremely informative. definitely had to take breaks while reading but the story is gripping.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Child death, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, and Racial slurs

sweetmusic22's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This volume was a bit longer than I expected. I was expecting to fly through this in 2 days at most. However, I did like that they showed John Lewis's whole speech from the March On Washington at the end of the volume 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Gun violence

ehmannky's review

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

This series is beautifully written and illustrated. The amount of history and the amount of information you learn about the Civil Rights movements and all of its factions is tremendous and yet never overwhelming. It's emotional and heartbreaking and inspiring and hopeful and will also make you disappointed we haven't progressed near as much as we should have. 

And the art just matches the tone so beautifully. It's in touch with reality without striking out for absolute realism. The stark black and white of the art just hits the reflective tone this book seems to be striking for. I just love it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, and Violence

readandfindout's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Initial rating and review in 2017: 4.5 stars. I'm adjusting to the art style and some of the ridiculously small text bubbles. This is so powerful.

2022 reread:
Style/writing: 4.5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4.5 stars
Art: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, and Death