Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling
MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the
key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin
and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for
a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.
By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into
the American consciousness, and as chairman of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear.
Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to
confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the
danger grows more intense: Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks,
intimidation, violence, and death. The only hope for lasting change is
to give voice to the millions of Americans silenced by voter
suppression: One Man, One Vote.
To carry out their nonviolent revolution, Lewis and an army of young
activists launch a series of innovative campaigns, including the Freedom
Vote, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and an all-out battle for the soul of
the Democratic Party waged live on national television.
With these new struggles come new allies, new opponents, and an
unpredictable new president who might be both at once. But fractures
within the movement are deepening ... even as 25-year-old John Lewis
prepares to risk everything in a historic showdown high above the
Alabama river, in a town called Selma.
**Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
#1 New York Times Bestseller
2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
2017 Michael L. Printz Award Winner
2017 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Winner
2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction - Winner
2017 Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature -
Winner
2017 Flora Stieglitz Straus Award Winner
2017 LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature - Finalist
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