March is a three-part graphic novel that tells the story of how U.S. Representative John Lewis came to take part in the Selma-to-Montgomery march that eventually led to the Bloody Sunday confrontation between police and civil rights protesters. The series of graphic novels were co-written by Lewis and Andrew Aydin with illustrations by Nate Powell.
The story is set off by a framing device that serves to inform the reader in a subtle way as to just how far America has managed to come since that day in 1965 when white Alabama state troopers, at the behest of a racist white governor, assaulted those peacefully assembled in a protest for civil rights with batons and tear gas. The framing...