The protestors never waver and even manage to get a boycott on several downtown businesses that refuse to serve blacks at their lunch counters. Over the coming weeks, officials make and break promises, and make threats in the hope that the protests will stop. They are beaten, arrested, and threatened, but they continue to work their program. However, as a college student, he joins a group of protestors who begin a program aimed at forcing the local department stores to serve blacks at their lunch counters. They promise to raise the money for the lawsuit, but Lewis's family refuses to support him and he drops the idea. Leaders in the black community, including Marin Luther King, Jr., offer to help Lewis sue the state of Alabama for admission to the college. He applies to a college that has traditionally been white, but the school officials do not respond. When the courts rule that “separate but equal” is no longer acceptable, Lewis expects to see changes.
Lewis notices that the white children have better buses and better school facilities. At the end of the day, his father scolds him but seems to know that Lewis will take the same action again the next time he has the opportunity. His family sometimes needs him to stay home and work on the farm, but Lewis often hides and manages to catch the bus to school. He also begins to realize there are other ideas about the major issues of life.Īs a youngster, Lewis is serious about his education. There, he discovers that he does not mind eating chicken when he has not played a part in raising it. When Lewis is a teenager, he spends time with a relative in Ohio. He is always upset when the family eats one of the chickens for a special dinner. He learns to manipulate the setting hens to get the most from them, but also learns that it is possible to overextend the hens. He feels compassion for the chickens and buries all the birds that die, including the babies. Imagining that he might grow up to be a minister, he practices preaching to the birds under his care. Lewis grows up on a farm with conservative parents.
The traditional graphic book frames depict the various aspects of Lewis's early life and his early role in the Civil Rights Movement, set against his role in 2009 as a Congressman when Barack Obama was about to be sworn in as the United States President. The book is presented in the form of a graphic memoir of John Lewis's life.
March, Book One Top Shelf Productions, Marietta, Georgia, 2013.
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