March: Book Three, by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, 2016 National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature
2016 National Book Awards
National Book Foundation: Who did you write this book for?
John Lewis: This book is for all of America. It is for all people, but
especially young people, to understand the essence of the civil rights
movement, to walk through the pages of history to learn about the
philosophy and discipline of nonviolence, to be inspired to stand up to
speak out and to find a way to get in the way when they see something
that is not right, not fair, not just.
Andrew
Aydin: March is for everyone who needs a hero. March is for all us
struggling to find our power, all of us who are maladjusted to
inequality and trying to understand our capacity to make the world
around us a better place, And, above all, March is for the young people
who need a way out, a way forward, for themselves, for their
communities, a way to have lives of great consequence and meaning, lives
of service and full of love. ..............
