![]() ![]() The congressman is scheduled to attend the anniversary ceremonies as the march’s sole surviving featured speaker. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech as the final featured speaker to step to the Lincoln Memorial lectern Lewis, then a 23-year-old leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was the day’s youngest speaker. ¶ Created with award-winning cartoonist Nate Powell and Lewis staffer Andrew Aydin, “March” fittingly lands two weeks before the 50th anniversary of the Aug. 28 March on Washington. ¶ That infamous incident on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, on that Bloody Sunday in March 1965, opens Lewis’s graphic-novel debut, “March: Book One,” a riveting and beautiful civil-rights story that hits stores Tuesday. The artist, hired to render the congressman’s memoir, needed to listen to the history right where freedom was forged through the fear and tear gas - and to stand where John Lewis stood on that day he thought he was going to die. John Lewis brought his young collaborator to the Alabama bridge, to where he long ago spilled his blood, because it wasn’t enough to simply see it in photos. ![]()
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