A review by katieinca
March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

5.0

Volume 2 focuses on the early 1960s, and the ugliness and violence that Lewis and others faced on the Freedom Rides. A lot of our education, at least in the midwest, extols the virtues of peaceful protests like these. But it glazes over the horrors that nonviolence was operating in, and that's crucial context. This retelling by Lewis, and specifically the way it's presented here in a graphic novel, won't let you look away from the appalling things ordinary people are capable of (particularly, in this case, white people committing violence against black bodies). I'm thrilled to hear schools are starting to teach these books.