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March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

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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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leweylibrary's review

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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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singernotthesong's review

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challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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challenging informative

4.0

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criticalgayze's review

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

While (and I know this will be fairly obvious) I think I would need to give the whole collection a chance to give the most accurate and fairest rating, March: Book One was an incredibly moving and captivating piece of graphic memoir. The powerful nature of visual storytelling is, while running the risk of asking to see the pain of others, an effective choice for chronicling tales of injustice. Much in the way I found it moving in Mira Jacob's Good Talk, the use of the graphic memoir here again highlights the experience in an undeniably emotive way.

I also found the framing of the story very interesting. The memoir narrative in Book One is framed around Lewis getting prepared to leave his office for the inauguration of President Obama on January 20, 2009. In much the way Scrooge is prompted to reconsider his choices by spectral visitations in A Christmas Carol, Lewis's life stories are instigated by things that play out during the preparations. He is first visited by a family of constituents from Atlanta, which leads to a reflection on his childhood and schooling. Next, a message from Reverend Jim Lawson prompts a reflection on his initiation to direct involvement with civil rights in Nashville. Finally, a missed phone call on the way out of his office leads to scenes from Lewis's first march on the office of the Mayor of Nashville, which led to the integration of lunch counters in the city.

Very powerful, very stylish, and very well constructed: All the things you want in a piece of graphic art.

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