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"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
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"Narrated by a man whose light skin enables him to 'pass' for white, the novel describes a journey through the strata of black society at the turn of the century--from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, from genteel aristocrats to the musicians who hammered out the rhythms of ragtime"--Page 4 of cover.
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Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.
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"Under most circumstances these days law board scores of 760 and impeccable feminist credentials might be expected to insure the swift acceptance of a candidate into law school. But when day-care director Joanie Caucus applies to half dozen top law schools, the best she can manage is inclusion on a couple of waiting lists. As the spring weeks drag by, the mail brings in one rejection slip after another, and Joanie is caught in an agonizing limbo,...
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Scope and content: Originally begun in 1937, and completed in 1962, John B. Beckett's "Empty Honors" is a fictional account of a feud between the Donnovan and Roy families in the early settlement period of Tennessee, and along the way includes "thumb-nail sketches of many renown people of Tennessee, war heroes, and legends" and poems. The typescript is divided into four parts, and an outline of each part is included at the beginning of the typescript....
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