152 pages

English language

Published Oct. 10, 2018 by Abrams, Inc..

ISBN:
978-1-4197-3069-6
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4 stars (3 reviews)

2 editions

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4 stars

This is, necessarily, a different and more painful series than March. For starters, we’re now living in a world without John Lewis. Then there’s the story arc: March ended on a triumphant note, the passing of the Voting Rights Act, huzzah. Unfortunately, the VRA did not immediately vanquish intolerance and injustice in the USA.

Run chronicles the slog ahead: new ways to intimidate and disenfranchise Black voters and candidates; the conviction and sentencing of white terrorists for murdering -- oops, my mistake: I meant the continued murder of Blacks with total impunity; and the growing schism in the SNCC, between the nonviolents and those espousing aggression, leading to Lewis’s ouster from his (til then) lifelong path. Book One covers 1965-1966, and I’m worried that at some point they might get to 1968, which was not a good year.

Two panels halfway through serve as a sobering reminder of how …

Subjects

  • Comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, biography & memoir
  • African american legislators
  • Legislators, united states
  • United states, biography