March: Book One by John Lewis
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Just finished the first of the trilogy of John Lewis's wonderful, MARCH. It is a graphic novel about the march (with Martin Luther King) across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama. I was totally blown away. I had thought I knew history, but his book demonstrated how many facts I was missing. John Lewis was a very young man-just in college-when he joined the sit-ins at restaurants where Blacks were not being served. He would not back down. Of course, this meant jail, but he did not care. What was he fighting for? The unalienable rights of human beings-EQUALITY. What started out as a very small movement grew on a daily basis and suddenly, hundreds stood on line (and Whites joined forces) demanding to eat and be served with a Black person. What a hero Lewis was and continues to be, since he was one of the senators who skipped the inauguration, a statement about a man who speaks from the HATE and not from the HEART. There is no room for Donald Trump in a just world, and he has proven this on a daily basis with just two weeks in office. But there is PLENTY of room for a man like Lewis, who personifies righteousness. Cannot wait to read the rest of these books!

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