{"id":40441,"date":"2021-12-22T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40441"},"modified":"2021-12-22T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T03:51:09","slug":"review-of-run-book-one-by-john-lewis-andrew-aydin-l-fury-and-nate-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40441","title":{"rendered":"Review of Run, Book One, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Run
\nBook One<\/em><\/p>\n

written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
\nart by L. Fury with Nate Powell<\/p>\n

Abrams Comic Arts, 2021. 154 pages.
\nReview written November 15, 2021, from a library book
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

Run, Book One<\/em> continues the story told in the award-winning series March<\/a><\/em>, about John Lewis\u2019s experiences during the Civil Rights Movement, this one beginning after the Voting Rights Act was signed. John Lewis got to see and approve of almost all the pages in this book before his death. I hope that the collaborators did enough work with him to continue the story, and I\u2019m optimistic about that since they\u2019re still calling it Book One<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We see lots of backlash against what they had accomplished. The book opens with members of the Ku Klux Klan on the march. There\u2019s also conflict in SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the organization for which John Lewis served as chairman for years \u2013 until dissent got him removed. The whole principle of nonviolence was being challenged.<\/p>\n

A note at the back makes me appreciate how much historical research went into getting the detailed images in this book exactly right. They not only researched things like which models of cars were made that year, but also which cars people in any given neighborhood would drive. There are also short biographies at the back of people who show up in the book, and that section goes on for twelve pages. There\u2019s so much detail and so much to learn in this book.<\/p>\n

I thought it was interesting that the Black Panther party produced small comic books \u201cexplaining to new voters how they could vote for the new party, as well as the responsibilities and powers of the different elected positions they\u2019d be voting for.\u201d So this graphic novel comes from a long and fine tradition.<\/p>\n

I am so thankful to the team of \u201cGood Trouble Productions\u201d for making sure that John Lewis\u2019s voice can still be heard.<\/p>\n

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