![]() ![]() ![]() Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. ![]() , a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin andīest-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president. Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon and key figure of the civil rights movement. ![]()
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