MarchBook two

Congressman John Lewis, an American iconand one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues hisaward-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin andartist Nate Powell, inspired by a 1950s comic book that helped preparehis own generation to join the struggle.

Now, March brings the lessons ofhistory to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committedthan ever to changing the world through nonviolence - but as he and his fellowFreedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they willbe tested like never before.

Faced with beatings, police brutality,imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the movement's young activists place theirlives on the line while internal conflicts threaten to tear them apart. But their courage will attract thenotice of powerful allies, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Attorney GeneralRobert F. Kennedy... and once Lewis is elected chairman of the StudentNonviolent Coordinating Committee, this 23-year-old will be thrust into thenational spotlight, becoming one of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rightsmovement and a central figure in the landmark 1963 March on Washington for Jobsand Freedom.