Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

7 reviews

laurareads87's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Animal death, Grief, Police brutality, Confinement, Child death, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, and Murder

Minor: Slavery

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Confinement, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Cursing, and Racism

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Racial slurs, and Cursing

Moderate: Slavery

singernotthesong's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, and Murder

Moderate: War, Death, Blood, and Slavery

hipearson's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Violence

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Slavery

sweetmusic22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Hate crime

Minor: Police brutality and Slavery

I loved that this book in the series was dedicated to the life of Senator and Civil Rights Activist John Lewis. It is very clear that these 2 white male creators wanted to pay their respects to him while he was still alive. After reading the first book, I'd love to finish the rest of the series. I believe that March would be perfect to teach kids about the importance of learning about our nation's dark racist history and teach them about how to stand-up against injustice. I'm so happy that these guys were able to get John Lewis to be a part of this before he passed away.

nyoom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

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