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laurareads87's review against another edition
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5.0
March is an excellent graphic novel introduction to John Lewis and his work as a young activist in the civil rights movement. This first volume covers many familiar events, such as the Woolworth sit-ins, the founding of the SNCC, and King's speech during the March on Washington.
While I have a broad understanding of the movement's history, I learnd a lot about Lewis' role and am looking forward to reading the rest of the series. Nate Powell's illustrations bring Lewis' story to life - I like the choice of black and white, which gives the imagery a feel of having been sketched by a witness to the events. Highly recommend.
Content warnings: racism, racial slurs, violence, animal death, hate crime, police brutality, death (murder) of a child, confinement, grief, mention of slavery.
While I have a broad understanding of the movement's history, I learnd a lot about Lewis' role and am looking forward to reading the rest of the series. Nate Powell's illustrations bring Lewis' story to life - I like the choice of black and white, which gives the imagery a feel of having been sketched by a witness to the events. Highly recommend.
Content warnings: racism, racial slurs, violence, animal death, hate crime, police brutality, death (murder) of a child, confinement, grief, mention of slavery.
Graphic: Racial slurs, Animal death, Grief, Police brutality, Confinement, Child death, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, and Murder
Minor: Slavery
leweylibrary's review against another edition
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5.0
It's hard to write a review for the individual books in this series when I read them back to back to back lol but I can say that I especially liked this one because it remained the most focused on John Lewis and his life which were my personal favorite parts. It helped to remember that this was his story in addition to this bigger narrative of America's story and the Civil Rights Movement.
I absolutely think this book is how kids should start to learn about the Civil Rights Movement. It's not only easy to digest in graphic novels form, but it talks about aspects of the movement that I absolutely never learned about in school. I think the way I learned about it is such a disservice not only to the movement but to people like John who fought so hard for so long and did so much.
I absolutely think this book is how kids should start to learn about the Civil Rights Movement. It's not only easy to digest in graphic novels form, but it talks about aspects of the movement that I absolutely never learned about in school. I think the way I learned about it is such a disservice not only to the movement but to people like John who fought so hard for so long and did so much.
Graphic: Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Racial slurs, and Cursing
Moderate: Slavery
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1.5
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence
Moderate: Slavery
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