It's time to pick up books for the Vermont Humanities Council, Vermont Reads 2019 event at the Rochester Public Library. The VHC book of the year, March I, is the first of a series of three graphic novels about the civil rights movement. This multiple award winning book is a wonderful introduction to the civil rights movement, nonviolent civil disobedience, the law, and the graphic novel as a literary device.
John Lewis, Congressman from Georgia, coauthored the MARCH trilogy which has been adopted into the core curriculum of school systems across the country to teach the Civil Rights Movement to the next generation.
His courage and dedication to justice is unparrelled in recent history. He survived over 40 beatings and arrests for challenging Jim Crow and voter suppression laws in the 1960's South. He has dedicated his political life to the highest ethical standards and moral principles, and commands the respect from both sides of the congressional aisle.
Born the son of sharecroppers, he was inspired by the activism surrounding the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and quickly rose to the leadership of the civil rights movement and has remained in the vanguard of progressive social movements and the human rights struggle in the United States.
Copies of his biography, Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, is also available for a more in depth discussion of his life's experience and work.
Join us Thursday, February 28th at 10:30 for a discussion of the life of John Lewis and March I.