March: Book 1 by John Lewis & Andrew Aydin

Description

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 segregaion.  Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the hights and lows of the broader civil rights movement.  Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his ife 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.