Status
Available
Series
Publication
Top Shelf Productions (2016), Edition: First Edition, 256 pages
Library's review
"Aliving icon of the civil rights movement brings his frank and stirring account of the movement’s most tumultuous years (so far) to a climax.
As chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee between 1963 and 1966, Lewis was directly involved in both public demonstrations and
This memoir’s unique eyewitness view of epochal events makes it essential reading for an understanding of those times—and these. (Graphic memoir. 11 & up)" www.kirkusreviews.com, A Kirkus Starred Review
As chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee between 1963 and 1966, Lewis was directly involved in both public demonstrations and
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behind-the-scenes meetings with government officials and African-American leaders. He recalls both with unflinching honesty in this trilogy closer carrying his account from the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church to his eventual break with SNCC’s increasingly radical elements. Alternating stomach-turning incidents of violence (mostly police violence)—including his own vicious clubbing on the Selma to Montgomery march’s “Bloody Sunday”—with passages of impassioned rhetoric from many voices, he chronicles the growing fissures within the movement. Still, despite the wrenching realization that “we were in the middle of a war,” he steadfastly holds to nonviolent principles. The passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act marks the end of his account, though he closes with a final look ahead to the night of Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Powell’s high-contrast black-and-white images underscore the narrative's emotional intensity with a parade of hate-filled white faces and fearful but resolute black ones, facing off across a division that may not be as wide as it was then but is still as deep.This memoir’s unique eyewitness view of epochal events makes it essential reading for an understanding of those times—and these. (Graphic memoir. 11 & up)" www.kirkusreviews.com, A Kirkus Starred Review
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Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Young People's Literature — 2016)
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (Nonfiction — 2016)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — Young Adult Literature — 2016)
Eisner Award (Nominee — 2017)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2018)
Thumbs Up! Award (Top Ten — 2017)
Coretta Scott King Award (Winner — 2017)
Printz Award (Winner — 2017)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2018)
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal (Winner — 2017)
The White Ravens (2017)
VLA Graphic Novel Diversity Award (Winner — Youth — 2016)
CYBILS Awards (Winner — 2016)
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction (Nominee — 2017)
Dragon Award (Finalist — Graphic Novel — 2017)
Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children's Literature (Winner — 2017)
NPR: Books We Love (2016)
CCBC Choices (2017)
Notable Children's Book (Older Readers — 2017)
Nerdy Book Award (Graphic Novels — 2016)
Penn GSE's Best Books for Young Readers (Selection — Comics & Graphic Novels — 2016)
Great Graphic Novels for Teens (Nonfiction — 2016)
New York Public Library Best Books: For Teens (Nonfiction — 2016)
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List (Grades 9-12 — 2017)
OYAN Graphic Rave (2017)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2016-08-02
ISBN
1603094024 / 9781603094023
Other editions
March: Book Three by John Lewis (Paperback)