John Lewis, Andrew Aydin ja Nate Powell: March, Book two ja March, Book three

John Lewis ja Andrew Aydin kertovat USA:n kansalaisoikeusliikkeestä Nate Powellin piirtämissä sarjakuvakirjoissa. Kirjat ovat ajankohtaisia, koska rasismi nostaa päätään, ja USA:n nykyinen hallinto on polkemassa ihmisoikeuksia ja toteuttamassa ihonväriin perustuvaa syrjintää.

March, Book two (Top Shelf Productions, 2015; ISBN 978-1-60309-400-9)

Nominated for the Eisner Award 2016.

Congress man John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, inspired by a 1950s comic book that helped prepare his own generation to join the struggle. Now, March brings the lessons of history 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 committed than ever to changing the world through non-violence - but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before. Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the movement's young activists place their lives on the line while internal conflicts threaten to tear them apart. But their courage will attract the notice of powerful allies, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy... and once Lewis is elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, this 23-year-old will be thrust into the national spotlight, becoming one of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement and a central figure in the landmark 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

March, Book three (Top Shelf Productions, 2016; ISBN 978-1-60309-402-3)

National Book Award for Young People's Literature Shortlist 2016.

Written by a congressman who is an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, this title brings the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin ja Nate Powell: March, Book one

John Lewis ja Andrew Aydin ovat kirjoittaneet ja Nate Powell piirtänyt sarjakuvan, jossa kerrotaan USA:n rotusorron ja rasismin vastaisesta kamppailusta: March, Book one (Top Shelf Productions, 2016; ISBN 978-1-60309-383-5).



Teos kertoo vuonna 1963 ihmisoikeuksia puolustaneeseen marssiin johtaneista tapahtumista, päähenkilönä John Lewis, joka seurasi tapahtumia lähietäisyydeltä ja kasvoi sittemmin merkittäväksi poliitikoksi ja väkivallattomia keinoja käyttäväksi rasismin vastustajaksi.

Näinä päivinä tämän tarinan kertominen on erityisen tärkeää, jotta ymmärtäisimme välttää niitä kauheuksia ja virheitä joihin on sorruttu vuosikymmeniä sitten.

Donald Trump on toimillaan avoimesti osoittanut kannattavansa natsien ja rasistien ajattelua. Tällaisen ääriajattelun aktiivinen vastustaminen on kriittisen tärkeää jotta säilytämme maailman elinkelpoisena tuleville sukupolville.

Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president.

A graphic novel memoir of a legend of the civil rights movement. Created by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, it is also a Coretta Scott King Honor book, a required text in classrooms across America, and the first graphic novel to win a Robert F Kennedy Book Award.