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raebelanger's review
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Child death, Blood, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Racial slurs
xsleepyshadows's review
5.0
Rest in Power. 2020 - my early review from colona
I first learned about John Lewis on TV and I was browsing goodreads and saw his familiar name and sure enough it was him. What an amazing historical figure, fought for civil rights, was arrested several times, and became a congressman along with other achievements. I really hope these books find there way into history classes. His memoir was interesting the ink illustrations of black and white I found like reading a memory, I was totally engrossed reading his history, and l felt Inspired that I can fight and make a difference. In times like these especially you have to be kind to those around you, lend a helping hand (which can start in your community), and recognize your privilege. I like to think I make a difference by ordering and making sure I read diverse fiction. It's a small step but I think making sure there is representation for many people is important. After reading all of them it can also be a little depressing reading how many people died and how harshly people were treated. Continue the fight today, it is important and if you see racial or any injustice call it out and demand change. I can not really put into words how grateful and the respect I have for John Lewis. I highly recommend this powerful memoir with charming and amazing ink illustrations.
I first learned about John Lewis on TV and I was browsing goodreads and saw his familiar name and sure enough it was him. What an amazing historical figure, fought for civil rights, was arrested several times, and became a congressman along with other achievements. I really hope these books find there way into history classes. His memoir was interesting the ink illustrations of black and white I found like reading a memory, I was totally engrossed reading his history, and l felt Inspired that I can fight and make a difference. In times like these especially you have to be kind to those around you, lend a helping hand (which can start in your community), and recognize your privilege. I like to think I make a difference by ordering and making sure I read diverse fiction. It's a small step but I think making sure there is representation for many people is important. After reading all of them it can also be a little depressing reading how many people died and how harshly people were treated. Continue the fight today, it is important and if you see racial or any injustice call it out and demand change. I can not really put into words how grateful and the respect I have for John Lewis. I highly recommend this powerful memoir with charming and amazing ink illustrations.
bayareabruin11's review
5.0
John Lewis is an American hero and as election day drawers nearer I cannot help but think of his many sacrifices to bring the right to vote to so many Americans. This incredible book should be required reading in history class when the Civil Rights Movement is taught. The book is heartbreaking (there was so much more violence than I knew), quirky (Lewis shyly dancing with Shirley MacLaine), and inspiring (a moment between President Obama and Lewis, "Because of you John", brought me to tears).
Please everyone go out and vote tomorrow to keep this country on its long march toward a more just and equal society, so wonderfully embodied by Rep. John Lewis.
"I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool of instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it" - Lewis
Please everyone go out and vote tomorrow to keep this country on its long march toward a more just and equal society, so wonderfully embodied by Rep. John Lewis.
"I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool of instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it" - Lewis
giduso's review against another edition
5.0
Un modo interessante per conoscere la storia di John Lewis e del movimento per i diritti civili. Disegni perfetti per rappresentare una storia intensa e dolorosa
james_j_igoe's review against another edition
5.0
Illuminating
This one book has taught me more, made me appreciate more, the hard work, the organization, and the diligence of the people that worked for civil rights, more so than anything I can remember.
This one book has taught me more, made me appreciate more, the hard work, the organization, and the diligence of the people that worked for civil rights, more so than anything I can remember.
ryan_oneil's review
5.0
This is John Lewis's first-person account of his work in the Civil Rights movement leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It's as amazing as you'd expect. It's a comic book/graphic memoir and the art does justice to the words.
The art does a good job of highlighting the brutality suffered by those in the movement. It also does a fine job illustrating quiet moments, moments of discussion, and moments of reflection.
Lewis starts with growing up in rural Alabama, goes through the Freedom Riders and the March on Washington, includes the 1964 Democratic Convention, which I had never heard about, and culminates with the Bloody Sunday march from Selma to Montgomery.
The art does a good job of highlighting the brutality suffered by those in the movement. It also does a fine job illustrating quiet moments, moments of discussion, and moments of reflection.
Lewis starts with growing up in rural Alabama, goes through the Freedom Riders and the March on Washington, includes the 1964 Democratic Convention, which I had never heard about, and culminates with the Bloody Sunday march from Selma to Montgomery.
jseargeant's review
Originally published at Novel Escapism
Congressman John Lewis has taken his heroic story from the civil rights movement and turned it into a compelling graphic novel. Much more than a memoir, March represents important American history told in a modern format that will bring to life this story for new generations. Nate Powell’s stark black and white art gives even more weight to Mr. Lewis’ tales of the struggles for racial equality and the power of nonviolent protest. March is unafraid and unapologetic in its depiction of both the highs and lows of the civil right movement and it should be required reading for everyone.
Congressman John Lewis has taken his heroic story from the civil rights movement and turned it into a compelling graphic novel. Much more than a memoir, March represents important American history told in a modern format that will bring to life this story for new generations. Nate Powell’s stark black and white art gives even more weight to Mr. Lewis’ tales of the struggles for racial equality and the power of nonviolent protest. March is unafraid and unapologetic in its depiction of both the highs and lows of the civil right movement and it should be required reading for everyone.
nickoftheparty's review
5.0
more moving than expected for an account i already largely knew. tragic, too: written in 2012 with obama's inauguration as the central framing device. most compelling to me was the intergroup and intergenerational tensions between SNCC and SCLC/NAACP/CORE