Lewis, John
Summary: This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEW1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEW
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEWLewis, John
Contents: The festivals (4:16) -- One! of Parker's moods (3:54) -- December, remember (7:00) -- That! afternoon in Paris (6:08) -- Cain and Abel (6:53) -- Come rain or come shine (5:03) -- Trieste (4:17) -- Django (5:25) -- Sammy (4:10) -- What is this thing called love? (5:52).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LEWLewis, John
Summary: "Featuring interviews of civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis at almost every stage of his career, this collection illustrates why Lewis has become a human rights icon and remains an inspiration to activists today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, JOHN LEWLewis, John
Summary: "After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2015
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEW1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEW
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEWLewis, John
Contents: Sweet Georgia Brown (2:54) -- September song (5:25) -- Afternoon in Paris (5:10) -- Two degrees east, three degrees west (3:22) -- I'll remember April (3:09) -- Django (7:30) -- Willow weep for me (3:22) -- Cherokee (4:04) -- For Ellington (5:35) -- Don't blame me (3:50) -- At the horse show (2:49).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Recording Corporation 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK LEWLewis, John
Contents: Prelude to Odds against tomorrow -- A cold wind is blowing -- Five figure people crossing paths -- How to frame pigeons -- Morning trip to Melton -- Looking at the caper -- Johnny Ingram's possessions -- The carousel incident -- Skating in Central Park -- No happiness for Slater -- Main theme, Odds against tomorrow -- Games -- Social call -- The impractical man -- Advance on Melton -- Waiting...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Signature 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ODDLewis, John
Summary: The final reflections, words, and wisdom of esteemed civil rights champion and late Congressman John Lewis, who continued to offer inspiration and hope to millions even while he battled the cancer that ultimately ended his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73 LEWLewis, John
Summary: Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk LewisCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEWLewis, John
Contents: The golden striker (3:39) -- One never knows (9:20) -- The rose truc (4:55) -- Cortege (7:24) -- Venice (4:26) -- Three windows (6:43).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jazz Heritage 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC NOLewis, John
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling, graphic novel series March comes the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. For John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement as he knew it ended with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, but his struggle in the following years echo many of the same questions of civil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEWIS LEWLewis, John
Summary: Congressman John Lewis recounts his life, which began in rural poverty in Alabama, and included leadership of the movement to desegregate Nashville, a speech at the 1963 March on Washington, chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and election to the U.S. Congress from Georgia in 1986. "John Lewis tells his story of struggle in the civil rights movement, or fomradeship in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, JOHN LEWLewis, John
Summary: "In turbulent times Americans look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. As we confront questions of social inequality there's no better time to revisit the lessons of the '60s and no better leader to learn from than Congressman John Lewis. In Across That Bridge, Congressman Lewis draws from his experience as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73 LEWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73 LEWLewis, John
Contents: Prelude no. 1 (2:58) -- Fugue no. 1 (7:53) -- Prelude no. 2 (3:17) -- Fugue no. 2 (4:14) -- Prelude no. 6 (3:29) -- Fugue no. 6 (5:43) -- Prelude no. 7 (6:27) -- Fugue no. 7 (3:25) -- Prelude no. 21 (3:52) -- Fugue no. 21 (4:39) -- Prelude no. 22 (5:30) -- Fugue no. 22 (3:58).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Philips 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LEWPeyton, J. Lewis (John Lewis)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3755 PeytoLewis, John S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.397 LEWHarris, Duchess.
Summary: John Lewis is an influential African American politician who played a key role in the civil rights movement. He raised awareness of racial discrimination and violence in the 1960s. This book explores Lewis's activism and political career. Includes infographics and glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LEWIS HARHubbard, Crystal
Summary: "Starting in the 1960s, John Lewis began his activism alongside civil rights legend and good friend Martin Luther King Jr. He participated in many now-historic events, including the 1963 March on Washington, the Freedom Rides, and the Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. John continued his impactful career when he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1986. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEWPatrick, Denise Lewis
Summary: "From the time John Lewis asked Dr. Martin Luther King to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown as teenager, he never stopped organizing, from Freedom Rides, to the marches in Selma and Washington, and more. Introduce readers to his concept of getting into "good trouble" in this Level 3 Ready-to-Read book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE PATCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEWPinkney, Andrea Davis
Summary: "When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote -- Tybre is determined to meet him. Tybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship! In rich, poetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEWSummary: Follow the courageous journey of John Lewis, a civil rights hero, congressional leader, and human rights champion whose unwavering fight for justice spans the past 50 years. The son of sharecroppers, Lewis grew up in the segregated South and rose from Alabama's Black Belt to the corridors of power on Capitol Hill. His humble origins have forever linked him to those whose voices often go unheard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOHSummary: Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHBausum, Ann.
Summary: Bausum compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. The book shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 323.092 BAUSummary: A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013