The long march for civil rights in America starts from afar and is not over yet

The first comic book to win the National Book Award

"Perhaps Americans have forgotten. And few have more references than John Lewis to remind them what democracy looks like." The New York Times

Today we tend to think that the results achieved by the American civil rights movement were a necessary act of democracy, almost an inevitable outcome of social progress. Instead, they were the painful conquest of men and women, often very young, who had to suffer unspeakable violence during a prolonged season of daily discipline, training in nonviolence, and unshakable determination toward a historic goal of justice. John Lewis, the main protagonist of that season, today delivers in this acclaimed memoir in the form of a graphic novel the vivid story from inside the long, and to date unfinished, American march for equality