March. Book Three
2016
- african american legislators
- civil rights movements
- biography
- comic books, strips
- african americans, biography
- civil rights movements, united states
- united states, congress, house, biography
- civil rights workers
- comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, biography & memoir
- united states, race relations
The story
Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling *March* trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.
What it’s like
Stark black-and-white linework with heavy ink shadows, where the page itself feels like a dim, grainy newsreel, and the occasional spread of stark white space gives the big moments room to breathe. Nate Powell's panels are dense and kinetic in the crowded scenes, with marching bodies, cramped hearing rooms and shouting crowds packed tight, then slow down into quiet close-ups of faces. The sensory world is one of humid Southern summers, wooden pews, flashbulbs and the clatter of typewriters, and the tone is steady, earnest and hopeful rather than fatalistic. This is a reflective, witness-style read that moves through the 1960s civil rights struggle and into the halls of Congress, and it suits a slow afternoon with a cup of tea, a long train journey, or a reader coming back to history with patience. Violence appears in the form of police clubs, dogs and bombings, rendered briefly and without gore but with real weight. It is written for readers who want history told through lived testimony, and for anyone introducing younger readers to civil rights through an accessible, graphic format.
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