It's 2009, the day of President Obama's inauguration. It begins with John Lewis as an old man waking on a dark early morning in Washington, D.C. King did in Montgomery, all across America - South and North." Click here to see the full page.
how we could apply nonviolence just as Dr. and the Montgomery story - that inspired me." At another time in another period there was a comic book called The Montgomery Story ― Martin Luther King Jr. Lewis says, "And I just said, 'You shouldn't laugh. And there was a little teasing, but Congressman Lewis stood up for me," recalls Aydin. "Unashamed, I said I would be going to a comic book convention. Every superhero has an origin story - and so does the graphic novel of John Lewis' life.Ī bunch of staffers on Lewis' 2008 re-election campaign were sitting around, talking about what they would do next, including Andrew Aydin. His story has been told before in documentaries and books, but now he's putting his life story into the form of a graphic novel, March. The son of sharecroppers in rural Alabama, he went on to become the president of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and then, eventually, a U.S. Lewis is a pillar of the civil rights movement.
He was just 23 years old when he addressed the crowd of more than 200,000 at the Lincoln Memorial 50 years ago. John Lewis is the only person to have spoken at the 1963 March on Washington who is still alive. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title March Author John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, et al
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