Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement Santos Jorge
Winner, Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Comic Studies Society, 2020A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The history of America's civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold…
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Winner, Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Comic Studies Society, 2020A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The history of America's civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again. This has relegated many key figures and turning points to the margins, but graphic novels and graphic memoirs present an opportunity to push against the consensus and create a more complete history. Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement showcases five vivid examples of this:Ho Che Anderson's King (2005), which complicates the standard biography of Martin Luther King Jr.; Congressman John Lewis's three-volume memoir, March (2013-2016); Darkroom (2012), by Lila Quintero Weaver, in which the author recalls her Argentinian father's participation in the movement and her childhood as an immigrant in the South; the