![]() ![]() ![]() There’s the 13-year-old shot to death by teenagers who had just left a Klan rally. ![]() Lewis’s account in March Book Three, vividly dramatized by writer Aydin & artist Powell, contains many powerful moments. Eventually, after the historic “Bloody Sunday” March on March 7th, 1965 in Selma, Alabama (depicted as the most horrific experience ever, with nonviolent protestors mercilessly beaten by cops on Governor Wallace’s orders), President Johnson throws his total support behind the Voting Rights act. But brutal police treatment, attacks by racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan, and internal politics, almost undermine the movement. This is the Big One! Congressman John Lewis’s graphic novel/memoir trilogy concludes with March Book Three, which focuses on the events leading up to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. And quite a lot of blood got spilled along the way.Īfter the awful firebombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama in August 1963 which left four young girls dead, the young Lewis, Chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), steps up efforts to allow African Americans to vote in the South. ![]()
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