@article{693945,
      recid = {693945},
      author = {Lewis, John, and Aydin, Andrew, and Powell, Nate,},
      title = {March : Book One /},
      pages = {121 pages :},
      note = {"March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis'  lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in  the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of  Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story,  it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil  rights movement."--Back cover flap.},
      abstract = {This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman  John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights,  meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since  the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis'  personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of  the broader civil rights movement. Book one spans Lewis'  youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with  Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student  Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through  nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning  climax on the steps of City Hall. HIs commitment to justice  and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama  sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a  segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Wasiington D.C.,  and from receiving beatings from state troopers, to  receiving the Medal of Freedom awarded to him by Barack  Obama, the first African-American president -- From cover  flaps.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/693945},
}