Additional books by John Lewis

March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: 92 LEW (Graphic Novel)
ISBN: 9781603093002
Publication Date: 2013-08-13
Available in ebook format
March: Book Two by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: 92 LEW Graphic Novel
ISBN: 9781603094009
Publication Date: 2015-01-20
Available in ebook format
March: Book Three by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell
Call Number: 92 LEW Graphic Novel
ISBN: 9781603094023
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
Available in ebook format
Across That Bridge by John Lewis
Call Number: 92 LEW
ISBN: 9781401324117
Publication Date: 2012-05-15
Walking with the Wind by John Lewis; Michael D'Orso
Call Number: 92 LEW
ISBN: 9781476797717
Publication Date: 2015-02-10
Freedom Riders by Ann Bausum
Call Number: 323.092 BAU
ISBN: 9780792241737
Publication Date: 2005-12-27

Resources on John Lewis

Civil Rights: Freedom Riders

The Freedom Riders In this lesson, students will use a primary source—an NBC news report from 1961—to investigate the Freedom Rides. The lesson will also explore segregation in the South and the tenets of nonviolent protest.

Congressman John Lewis Reenacts Historic 1961 Freedom Rides Georgia Congressman John Lewis, one of the original Freedom Riders, discusses what inspired him and his friends to challenge segregation by boarding busses across the South in 1961. (NBC Today, May 12, 2001)

Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot is the story of a courageous group of Alabama students and teachers who, along with other activists, fought a nonviolent battle to win voting rights for African Americans in the South. Standing in their way: a century of Jim Crow, a resistant and segregationist state, and a federal government slow to fully embrace equality. By organizing and marching bravely in the face of intimidation, violence, arrest and even murder, these change-makers achieved one of the most significant victories of the civil rights era