In a chilling early scene, John rushes to a local fast food restaurant to take over a sit-in after its members are physically harassed by a young waitress. The heightened stakes as Lewis continues his path to the Lincoln Memorial (interspersed with scenes from President Barack Obama’s inauguration – a day which would have once seemed an impossibility) make March: Book Two even more compelling, inspiring, and suspenseful than its predecessor.Īydin and Powell don’t shy away from depicting the dangerous circumstances Lewis and his colleagues faced. Emboldened by the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, Lewis and his fellow activists are in the midst of broadening their focus – and coming face-to-face with a hatred that’s darker and more desperate than before.
Instead, Lewis (with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell) casts the reader into the heady days of his student activism at American Baptist in Nashville. As the only surviving member of the civil rights era’s “Big 6” and a key speaker at the event, Congressman John Lewis is part of a legacy that invites awe and admiration.īut at the beginning of the volume, the heroic campaigner is obviously unaware of what his future holds. It seems odd to start off a book review with an acknowledgement of the ending, but when that ending is the historic 1963 March on Washington, it’s impossible to ignore.
March: Book Two is a phenomenon powered by passion: the passion of one man who devoted himself steadfastly to a better world, and the passion of the team showing why his story is more resonant than ever.
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