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4.65 AVERAGE
4.65 AVERAGE
This is such a hard book to read, and yet so important. It boggles my mind how abusive and violent people were to the protestors just for being present and asking for change. The protestors, both black and white, accepted so much abuse and refused to respond in kind. I'm glad the book is in black and white, because I think adding color to the book would make it too heart-wrenching to read. The book hits some of the highlights of the Civil Rights movement - the Freedom Rides, the Children's March, the March on Washington, and it ends with the bombing of the church in Birmingham, which means we need to get the last book to see how it all ends. Highly recommended for all but the young and sensitive.
emotional
informative
inspiring
This series helps me understand the progress of the civil rights era much better than I did from textbooks.
This is the chapter where the violence of the Freedom Riders movement really escalates, and it is recorded starkly and with great impact by Lewis, Aydin, and Powell's drawings. I'm embarrassed I haven't read it sooner, but it does feel timely w/the women's march coming up.
This should be required reading for middle school American history and then again for high school. Volume 2 takes us to the teeth of the Civil Rights protests. It gets real: violence, tests of faith in the cause, progress and setbacks.
Not only does the story intensify, its telling does, too. Nothing in the first book felt urgent the way parts of this book do. When freedom riders show up in [Birmingham? I had to return the book] and the assembled crowd slowly papers over the bus windows after the driver gets off, my heart beat faster.
I can't wait until book 3.
Not only does the story intensify, its telling does, too. Nothing in the first book felt urgent the way parts of this book do. When freedom riders show up in [Birmingham? I had to return the book] and the assembled crowd slowly papers over the bus windows after the driver gets off, my heart beat faster.
I can't wait until book 3.
informative
medium-paced
I found myself going over and over the pictures and text. So much to discover in each frame. Should be required reading for all.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
If you think this is just a token filler novel, you are wrong. It is a necessary transition that ends on a very frustrating cliffhanger. It literally compels the reader to grab the third book in the trilogy because no, yOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE ME HANGING LIKE THAT.
I cannot recommend this enough. I'm not a graphic novel person - i struggle with the format typically - but the illustrations in this book blew away my expectations (even after reading the first one!) and enhanced the story. What a way to learn about such an important chapter in our history.
Completed for the Read Harder 2018 Challenge A comic written or illustrated by a person of color.
Completed for the Read Harder 2018 Challenge A comic written or illustrated by a person of color.