Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
March volume 2
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Description
"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
Author
Series
March volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Description
March 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. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.
3) Run
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2021-
Description
"To John Lewis, the civil rights movement came to an end with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. But that was after more than five years as one of the preeminent figures of the movement, leading sit-in protests and fighting segregation on interstate busways as an original Freedom Rider. It was after becoming chairman of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and being the youngest speaker at the March on Washington. It was...
4) March
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2013-2016]
Appears on list
Description
This graphic novel trilogy is a first-hand account of Congressman 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. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book one spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the...
Author
Series
March volume 3
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Description
By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as a chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and...
Author
Series
Run (John Lewis) volume 1
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2021.
Appears on list
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling, graphic novel series March comes the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. For John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement as he knew it ended with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, but his struggle in the following years echo many of the same questions of civil rights and equality that are being asked today. The movement...
Author
Series
Tales of the talented tenth volume 3
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Appears on list
Description
Tells the true story of Robert Smalls, the enslaved African, who pulled off one of the most daring and largest heists of the Civil War. Learn how Robert earns a job working for the C.S.S. Planter, escapes to freedom, goes on to become a first-generation Black politician, and makes history by writing and leading the passage of legislation that led to the United States’ first free and compulsory public school system. -- adapted from Amazon.com.
Tells...
Didn't Find It?
Didn't find it in CW MARS? You can request titles from other Massachusetts library networks through the Commonwealth Catalog.
If you need assistance, please reach out to your local library.