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The March Trilogy, Creation By Congressman John Lewis

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The March Trilogy, Created by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, this #1 New York Times bestseller is also a Coretta Scott King Honor book, a required text in classrooms across America, is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis’ personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. March, the first graphic novel of the trilogy that tells John Lewis’ story about the war to destroy segregation in rural Alabama, his transformative meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., the creation of the Nashville Student Movement (NSM), and their …show more content…

Throughout March Book Two John Lewis tells how he was directly involved in both public demonstrations and behind-the-scenes meetings with government officials and African-American leaders. He recalls with unflinching honesty his account from the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church to his eventual break with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) increasingly radical elements. Alternating stomach-turning incidents of violence including his own vicious clubbing on the Selma to Montgomery march with passages of impassioned rhetoric from many voices, he chronicles the growing fissures within the movement. In the stunning conclusion to the March trilogy. Congressman John Lewis tells how by the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American nation, and as chairman of the SNCC, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through

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The comic book “March Book One & Two,” illustrates the difficulties that the African American community had to face during the Civil Rights Movement. The “Excerpts from Understanding Comics,” article is able to show readers what comic books represent and the way in which both the author and artist portray the story on one page and then throughout the story. It helps readers understand “March: Book One & Two,” because the reader will be able to understand the book and the meaning that they are trying to get across to others. Book one is more about the actual actions that were being taking for the civil rights movement, while book two was about the ideas of the civil rights movement and how the leaders of each organization in the movement needed to watch everything that they were doing. This happens because John Lewis moves into different types of leadership roles between both books.

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The graphic memoir, March, is a biography about Congressman John Lewis’ young life in rural Alabama which provides a great insight into lives of black families in 1940s and 50s under Jim Crow and segregation laws. March opens with a violent march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which the gruesome acts later became known as “Bloody Sunday,” during this march, 600 peaceful civil rights protestors were attacked by the Alabama state troopers for not listening to their commands. The story then goes back and forth depicts Lewis growing up in rural Alabama and President Obama’s inauguration in 2009. This story of a civil rights pioneer, John Lewis, portrays a strong influence between geography, community, and politics. The correlation between these pillars of March is that they have to coexist with other in order for John Lewis to exist that the world knows today.

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March Rhetorical Analysis The 1960’s civil rights movement often used persuasive language to echo the unheard voices of many individuals. Some more than others possessed the ability to exercise their potent use of language to bring forward prominent changes. In the book, March by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, eloquent methods of speech play an important role. John Lewis, Martin Luther King, and George Wallace are some that expressed their beliefs through persuasive empowering words.

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There were many sources of conflict within the civil rights movement including Issues with John Lewis’s speech for the March on Washington as well as John Lewis and The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC. Even though there were some conflict great things were still achieved. John Lewis began writing his speech for the March on Washington with the help of SNCC staffer Nancy Stern, communications director Julian Bond as well as Jim Forman and Prathia Hall. He later received a call from Bayard Rustin who said “some people are very concerned about some of the things you’re going to say in your speech” (Lewis and Aydin 2;156). Rustin was concerned because John Lewis used the word Patience in his speech which he said is a “dirty and nasty word”.

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In the graphic novel March, congressman John Lewis relives his early life of being a farm boy, and his student life in places filled with discrimination and segregation. It is published by Top Shelf Productions and costs $14.95, a fair price for a book like this. One of the author’s, John Lewis is a congressman who has won numerous awards, including the Medal of Freedom. John Lewis has also written other books such as Across that Bridge. The second author is Andrew Aydin, works as a Digital Director and Policy Advisor to John Lewis.

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Although John Lewis had forces like segregation hold him back, there are four turning points such as his first bible, the trip to Buffalo, first arrest, and meeting Martin Luther King for the very first time. From the book March, written by John Lewis, I will show how these situations really made a difference for him to become a public speaker and activist for equal rights. In this essay, I am going to describe how these impacted his life. I will first start with when he was given his first bible.

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On the morning of August 28, 1963 during the March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most powerful and famous speech. His use of pathos, ethos, and logos are the foundation of his persuasive movement. King's energy and passion lights a civil rights fire that even today refuses to diminish. How does Dr. Martin Luther King Jr persuade thousands even millions to fight for freedom? It is simply his use of ethos, pathos, and logos.

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The book March, written by Congressman John Lewis, is a graphic novel that portrays his life of civil rights from his beginnings. John Lewis started life as a simple chicken farmer where he learned to care for and love them sadly this did not last long because John was very interested in school and learning about everything he could. He loved to learn so much he would even run away from his farming duties. In his book, John Lewis presents the topic of civil rights in the format of a graphic novel he was able to show more visual detail than another type of book ever could. By using pathos or an emotional appeal he shows readers his point of view on the subject of civil right and how he helped the cause reach new heights.

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Lewis’ Turning Points In the graphic novels “March” by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, John tells us the story of his life in the civil rights movement. Throughout his journey, he experiences many events that change him. Although there are many turning points in his life, three of them stood out to me the most. There is the day he got his first bible, his trip to Buffalo, and his attendance of Jim Lawson’s workshop on nonviolence.

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Laws are set in place to protect what is socially just. Without laws, justice is no longer protected and without justice, society falls to the hands of darkness. This was a battle being fought during the Civil Rights era between people of color and those opposed to them. Whether the “unlawful assembly” laws were used to suppress African Americans or whether those people involved in protesting for civil rights were breaking laws by doing so, they were suppressed unlawfully time and time again by opposing forces. This is shown in Book One of March, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, during the protest from Selma to Montgomery (known as Bloody Sunday), in Book Two of March during a protest with almost a thousand of Birmingham's children,

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At the 1963 March on Washington, American Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of his most famous speeches in history on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the height of the African American civil rights movement. King maintains an overall passionate tone throughout the speech, but in the beginning, he projected a more urgent, cautionary, earnest, and reverent tone to set the audience up for his message. Towards the end, his tone becomes more hopeful, optimistic, and uplifting to inspire his audience to listen to his message: take action against racial segregation and discrimination in a peaceful manner. Targeting black and white Americans with Christian beliefs, King exposes the American public to the injustice

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