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Walking with the wind

a memoir of the movement
2015
Autobiography of John Lewis, civil rights worker and member of the House of Representatives, discussing his participation in several events in the civil rights movement during the 1960s and 1970s and his terms as a congressman from Georgia during the late 1980s and 1990s.

The story of civil rights hero John Lewis

2018
An illustrated biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, including sidebars with background information on themes relevant to Lewis's life.
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Freedom Summer for young people

the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy
Chronicles the events of the summer of 1964, when hundreds of college students arrived in Mississippi to register black voters and educated black children. Delves into the murders of three of the volunteers and discusses the FBI's investigation, the discovery of the bodies, and the climax of the summer at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.

March

Presents in graphic novel format events from the life of Georgia congressman John Lewis, focusing on his youth in rural Alabama, his meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.

John Lewis in the lead

a story of the Civil Rights Movement
An illustrated biography of Georgia congressman John Lewis, focusing on his activities on behalf of civil rights, specifically his leadership in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in an effort to secure voting rights for African-Americans.

Hands on the freedom plow

personal accounts by women in SNCC
2010
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March

A graphic novel account of some pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement.
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