The Vermont Humanities Council 2019 selection is the graphic novel March: Book One. The book is the first of a trilogy written by civil rights icon John Lewis, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and award-winning graphic artist Nate Powell.
Lewis was chairman of the Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was one of the “Big Six” leaders of the civil rights movement. He has served in the US Congress since 1987 and was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2011. March: Book One tells of Lewis’s childhood in rural Alabama, his desire as a young man to be a preacher, his life-changing interactions with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the nonviolent sit-ins he joined at lunch counters in Nashville as a means of undermining segregation.
The East Monkton Church Association and the Russell Memorial Library are collaborating to sponsor Vermont Reads 2019. Copies of the book are available at the Russell Memorial Library during regular hours.
After you’ve read the book, consider participating in the following events:
July 11th at 6:30 pm at the Russell Memorial Library
Book discussion to explore some of the themes of the book.
July 26th at 7:00 pm at the East Monkton Church
Rise!, episode five of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Written and presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Episode five highlights the historic events of African-American people from 1940-1968.
For more information contact Candace at:
453-7575 or candace.polzella@uvm.edu
Russell Memorial Library 