Nate Powells And The Civil Rights Movement

Thankfully today, racial segregation is no longer a major issue in America. Interestingly enough, it was only less than fifty years ago when African Americans were finally being desegregated and equalized with the rest of America through The Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement consisted of strategies, groups and movements whose purpose was to end racial segregation and secure citizens rights to the federal law. Although many people may go uneducated on the civil rights movement, it still has made an important impact on American society today. This era is not one to ignore due to the brutal violences and consistent assaults that had occurred from either police or pro segregators, who were not enthusiastic about the movements at

There's more to these novels than a story. There's sacrifices, pain, struggles, and many more intense emotions. This era was extremely difficult emotionally and physically, in the fact that many lives of African Americans were lost. These assaults and brutalities were extreme in the south. In Birmingham, Alabama police officers even sent attack dogs and hosed down children and women who were marching for nonviolence and freedom. Powell presents this specific march phenomenally by providing immense detail of fear in the figure’s eyes and illustrating vicious attack dogs that the police released on the children and women involved (Book 2 Powell aa jl. 137-138). Getting a visual picture of what had literally happened, fills one’s heart with a deep sorrow. It's difficult to believe deaths occurred due to a nonviolent march of freedom, but it's even more uncomfortable to understand the reality of it all. Powell, Aydin and Lewis make you feel the power in the movement, as if you were apart of

Lewis made the graphic novels impactful by using book one of the series to uniquely express how he grew up and what influenced his perspective. Even at a young age, he was able to recognize what social and political events inspired him. I certainly think that Powell, Aydin and Lewis are calling to inspire everyone in the sense of listening to your inner mentality and stand for righteousness and equality, even if authority figures banned that right from you. John Lewis inspires the nation with his leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as he strives for equal rights. Around his early twenties, John Lewis became apart of the "Big Six" with Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), A. Phillip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Whitney Young, Jr. of the National Urban League. Not only was Lewis a nationwide influence, but other activist leaders, as listed before, joined forces with Lewis and reached out to make positive changes in America, for all men’s