Rating: 5/5
March provides a wonderful insight into the civil rights movement in America. The book is set up in a frame narrative. There is the present day section that shows a couple of boys getting to meet John Lewis and hear some of his story. That story takes up the majority of the book and details how he got involved in the early days of the civil rights movement.
This gives a lot more depth than I've been exposed to previously on the topic. Plus, it shows how people reacted to the movement on both sides without focusing on the big names. The people you'd expect to see associated with the movement do make appearances, but this is about more than their stories. The struggle that these activists had to face are put front and center. They faced trade offs when deciding whether they should be involved or not.
The art didn't strike me in any particular way. It portrays the mundane really well. You can get a sense of the people and the places involved without the illustrations distracting from the message. I imagine that is a tough thing to pull off.
This is the first book in a trilogy, and it does a great job whetting the appetite for more. It makes the topic accessible and the impact is quite powerful. I will definitely pick up the rest of the set.
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