Synopsis

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.

By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as 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 death. The only hope for lasting change is to give voice to the millions of Americans silenced by voter suppression: One Man, One Vote.

To carry out their nonviolent revolution, Lewis and an army of young activists launch a series of innovative campaigns, including the Freedom Vote, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and an all-out battle for the soul of the Democratic Party waged live on national television.

With these new struggles come new allies, new opponents, and an unpredictable new president who might be both at once. But fractures within the movement are deepening ... even as 25-year-old John Lewis prepares to risk everything in a historic showdown high above the Alabama river, in a town called Selma.

Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
#1 New York Times Bestseller
2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
2017 Michael L. Printz Award Winner
2017 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Winner
2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction - Winner
2017 Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature - Winner
2017 Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Winner
2017 LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature - Finalist


Author: John Lewis, Andrew Aydin
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Published: 08/02/2016
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781603094023
Award: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award - Winner
Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Winner
Award: National Book Awards - Winner
Award: Michael L. Printz Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2016
Booklist 08/01/2016 pg. 53
School Library Journal 08/01/2016 pg. 133
Shelf Awareness 08/16/2016
Publishers Weekly 08/29/2016
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2016 pg. 133
Library Journal 11/15/2016 pg. 72
School Library Journal 12/01/2016 pg. 40
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2017 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style