I read all three books in the March series in one go. With its final installment, Book Three, due out in August, the series could be both a necessary guide to the past and a warning about the present.
His graphic-novel series, March, created by Lewis, his staffer Andrew Aydin, and the award-winning graphic novelist Nate Powell, has been a surprisingly good and critical part of that work. Lewis is working to ensure that the hard truths about race in America and his own legacy aren’t erased. One person who is well-versed in these kinds of racial politics is Representative John Lewis, whose career as a black civil-rights icon and renown as the last living speaker at the famed 1963 March on Washington are now the stuff of legend. Many of those ideas make the Trumpian vow to “Make America Great Again” sound more like a threat than a promise. Whether it’s an all-white breakout panel promoting unity, Representative Steve King laying out a defense of white supremacy on live television, or the routine dog-whistle criminalization of immigrants and black people that has been a Republican Party trademark for years, race and racism have been central to the theater in Cleveland. It’s not one of the official daily themes at the Republican National Convention, but at the heart of every pledge to make the country great or safe or “one” again has been the issue of race.
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