“If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love.” So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: “I believe it is because this book best explains the central element of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence: His belief …
From the Madison Books newsletter I hurried past Cal Anderson Park this week in time to join a crowd gathered in front of the light rail station there. It was a joyful throng, although it was a death that had brought us all together. We were present to honor the memory of Barbara Bailey, a …
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “You can be a King. Stamp out hatred. Put your foot down and walk tall. …
Long before Lewis collaborated on his National Book Award-winning comic-book memoir, March [which just won a record-breaking four awards from the American Library Association], he wrote this more traditional memoir, recounting his decades in the center of the civil rights movement, beginning when he was a teenager in Nashville, and the first years of what …
The March Trilogy is one of the most important graphic novels created. A superbly told history of the civil rights movement, John Lewis’s personal account of the actions of individuals and organizations throughout the South (but focused largely in Alabama) is a gripping, passionate, and richly detailed narrative of the events that would eventually lead …
