Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

26 reviews

vonhippo's review

emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Hate crime, Violence, Bullying, and Racial slurs

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

tspice24's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Racism

laurareads87's review

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

March is an excellent graphic novel introduction to John Lewis and his work as a young activist in the civil rights movement.  This first volume covers many familiar events, such as the Woolworth sit-ins, the founding of the SNCC, and King's speech during the March on Washington.
 While I have a broad understanding of the movement's history, I learnd a lot about Lewis' role and am looking forward to reading the rest of the series. Nate Powell's illustrations bring Lewis' story to life - I like the choice of black and white, which gives the imagery a feel of having been sketched by a witness to the events. Highly recommend.

Content warnings: racism, racial slurs, violence, animal death, hate crime, police brutality, death (murder) of a child, confinement, grief, mention of slavery.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Animal death, Grief, Police brutality, Confinement, Child death, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, and Murder

Minor: Slavery

qrb's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Hate crime

melodyseestrees's review

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Police brutality, Hate crime, and Animal death

tiernanhunter's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Confinement, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Cursing, and Racism

bg_oseman_fan's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

A must read. Even if you think you know John Lewis’ story and the Civil Rights movement, you will learn something from this book. The artwork and writing work together in tandem brilliantly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Death, Child death, Hate crime, Violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Animal death

leweylibrary's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

It's hard to write a review for the individual books in this series when I read them back to back to back lol but I can say that I especially liked this one because it remained the most focused on John Lewis and his life which were my personal favorite parts. It helped to remember that this was his story in addition to this bigger narrative of America's story and the Civil Rights Movement.

I absolutely think this book is how kids should start to learn about the Civil Rights Movement. It's not only easy to digest in graphic novels form, but it talks about aspects of the movement that I absolutely never learned about in school. I think the way I learned about it is such a disservice not only to the movement but to people like John who fought so hard for so long and did so much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Racial slurs, and Cursing

Moderate: Slavery

singernotthesong's review

challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: War, Death, Blood, and Slavery

danimacuk's review

hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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