5/29/2023 0 Comments Ball run john lewis![]() ![]() Other activists tried to focus on poverty across racial lines. The Vietnam War and its disparate impact on minority communities, especially poor minority communities, and global solidarity with colonized communities around the world became the focus of some activists. Post-1965, the Civil Rights movement had less clear objectives. Pre-1965, the Civil Rights movement was largely focused on legal segregation and voting rights. Post-1965 the narrative is much more nuanced and complicated. There was a righteous cause and while there was not universal agreement (civil disobedience was very controversial), once it was completed, the history has a clear narrative story of right and wrong. ![]() In some ways, the history of the early years of the Civil Rights movement, Brown v Board in 1954 until Selma in 1965 is a simpler narrative. ![]() There is a reason that the March Trilogy was the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer. It is one thing to read a narrative history about Civil Rights era marches, it is something else to see images of those marches with a mix of dialogue and narrative. The graphic novel format I think is particularly suited to the Civil Rights era history because the era’s evocativeness is part of its importance. I am a huge fan of the March Trilogy, a graphic novel trilogy that tells the early years of John Lewis’ life, framed as him remembering his early life at Obama’s Inauguration. Summary: A follow-up to the March Trilogy, taking up John Lewis’ story from 1964 until 1967. ![]()
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