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This is the third and final March book. The three have been published over the last 18 months and are both the autobiography of the first 25 years of John Lewis's life (plus a few moments from January of 2009) and a moving and powerful history of the Civil Rights movement in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama between 1960 and 1965.
This volume begins with the bombing of the 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that took the lives of four young black girls. It covers the Freedom Summer in Mississippi in 1964, the murder of three Civil Rights workers there (and that were deftly covered in the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning), the Democratic convention in Atlantic City and the Presidential election of 1964. It culminates in the March from Selma to Montgomery in March of 1965. John Lewis is beaten nearly to death on the bridge. The violence, racism and denial of basic rights were on full view for the American public to see on television and read about in papers from coast to coast.
There is a particularly touching moment 2/3 through this volume where President Obama hands Mr. Lewis a handwritten note just after his inauguration. It's incredibly moving, and if you want to know what it is, you have to buy this book.
I will be assigning this to my social work students at Rutgers next spring (and in subsequent springs) as part of a section on civil rights, race and the criminal justice system.
Last month, Book 2 won the Eisner Award. I expect Book 3 will win in 2017.
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