Last night and again this morning, ETHS -- in cooperation with Family Action Network -- was honored to host both Congressman Lewis and Andrew Aydin, co-author of March (and Digital Director & Policy Advisor to Congressman Lewis). Congressman Lewis and Mr. Aydin spoke not just about their graphic novels and the story they tell, but also about the importance of nonviolent protest and about the value of "questioning everything" by locating and analyzing the true sources of information (music to your primary-source-loving librarians' ears, ya'll!).
The complete March Trilogy (pictured up top) is now available in East Library, as is John Lewis's 1998 memoir, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement.
Movement and Black History? Check out...
- King: A Comics Biography, by Ho Che Anderson
- Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, by Joel Christian Gill
- Tales of the Talented Tenth: Bass Reeves, by Joel Christian Gill
- Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography, by Andrew Helfer (illus. Randy DuBurke)
- Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans, by Roland Owen Laird
- The Silence of Our Friends, by Mark Long & Jim Demonakos (illus. Nate Powell)
- Hip Hop Family Tree (Vol. 2 and Vol. 3), by Ed Piskor
- Harriet Tubman: The Life of an African-American Abolitionist, by Rob Shone
- The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the End of Slavery in America, by Dwight Jon Zimmerman