The Power of Words: Meet the Authors of MARCH
Featuring John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
The Power of Words: Meet the Authors of MARCH
Featuring John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Event Description
Monroe County Public Library, The Friends of the Library, and Union Board are honored to present The Power of Words featuring civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis, co-writer Andrew Aydin, and local artist Nate Powell.
Congressman Lewis and his co-creators will discuss their groundbreaking graphic novel series, March, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of Lewis’s lifelong struggle for civil and human rights. March: Book One spans Lewis’s youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Nashville Student Movement's battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins. The memoir trilogy continues in the newly-released March: Book Two, including the 1961 Freedom Rides and the legendary 1963 March on Washington.
The Power of Words: Changing Our World—One Author at a Time is a bi-annual event presented by The Friends of the Library and Monroe County Public Library.
Dozens of community programs and events are happening in advance of Congressman Lewis’s visit on September 21.
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