A review by unladylike
March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

5.0

REQUIRED READING ALERT! The first two volumes of this trilogy blew me away, and I was antsy for the past year for the third book to come out. It's another graphic memoir that could serve as a contemporary, relevant manual for social justice movements. Packed with behind-the-scenes looks at internal dissent, different figures within the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s (plus all the white men in power) showing how each was radical relative to another, tactics developed and tried over and over. Ultimately, the Students Nonviolent Coordination Committee, led by the young, but rapidly advancing John Lewis, goes through one violent atrocity after the next. At times they're getting arrested and/or beat up EVERY DAY, and showing up right back at the frontlines the next day again, demanding their rights just to register to vote - a right which had already been amended to the constitution ages before.

The shit they were facing then hasn't gone away, but they laid a tremendous groundwork for the next generations to follow and learn from their experiences.