- AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
- Congressman John Lewis holds a copy of March, Book 2, the second volume of his graphic memoir of his years as a civil rights activist.
In October of 2013, 73-year-old Congressman John Lewis was arrested on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. during a rally to spur action on an immigration bill. It was hardly the first time that the Georgia Democrat had been picked up for nonviolent civil disobedience. More than 40 incarcerations dot the civil rights advocate’s record, and some of them are chronicled with great care in March: Book Two, the second volume of his poignant black-and-white graphic memoir trilogy, drawn by Arkansas-born comics artist Nate Powell, with writing and editing support from congressional aide Andrew Aydin.
“Issuing this decision was one thing, of course,” wrote Lewis with coauthor Michael D’Orso in Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, the basis for March. “Carrying it out, as I would soon learn firsthand, was another.”
John Lewis and Andrew Aydin will be discussing March: Book 2 on Tue 3/31 at 6:30 PM at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago, chicagoideas.com. Tickets are sold out, but some may be released just before the event.
