Late to the Party Book Club - Episode 5 - March Book 1

Originally published in 2013 by Top Shelf, an imprint of IDW Publishing, March is a trilogy that spans Congressman John Lewis’s lifelong fight for civil rights and the role he played in the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Book 1 covers Lewis’s youth from his childhood spent fighting to be able to go to school, up to his university days where he met Dr. Martin Luther King and began to organize sit ins at counters around the downtown area of his town. March is a multi-award winning series including being a New York Times bestseller, a Washington Post bestseller, a National Book Award winner, a Coretta Scott King Book Award winner, a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award winner, and an Eisner winner. We are joined this week by retired librarian and American Library Association Lifetime Achievement award winner Deborah Taylor. Please listen as we discuss the importance of graphic novels as a medium to tell non-fiction stories and we talk about how the late John Lewis always found a way to get into good trouble.

 

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