Week 8: March Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell

I enjoyed reading this book. It was good to read about something you would've never thought would be turned into a comic. I've always heard stories about all of the boycotts and the nonviolence movement from history books, as well as family members, so it was good to read and see it illustrated in a point of view that was from someone who lived through it. I liked how his upbringing was incorporated and showing how it all connected and how he became the person he is. I think one of the biggest parts, in the beginning, is them showing two young boys with their grandmother, or an elder of theirs, coming into his office to listen to his story. Of course, since they're young it might not have been as big to them as it became when they got older. It reminds me of the time my brother and I met Martin Luther King III. We didn't really get a chance to talk to him, talk to him, but we got a chance to introduce ourselves, shake his hand and take a picture with him in front of the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta, Ga. We thought it was pretty cool of course, but now I'm like "WOW, I really met him" and it was just a coincidence we were there on one of the anniversaries.

While reading the part where they talked about the sit-ins, it made me think about the time my school took a field trip to the Civil Rights Museum in Atlanta, Ga. Went to the section where you could sit at the same counter from the diner in Alabama and listen to the voice simulator through headphones and the seat would move as if you were there. That is a very important section, like all of the other sections in the museum. It gives you feeling of what those people actually went through and you place your hands on the counter just like one of their procedures and listen to it. Some of my classmates go up after the first two out of seven minutes of the recording. I stayed through the whole thing. I wanted to hear it all through. I have even MORE respect for them after sitting and listening. I couldn't imagine actually being there and really experiencing what all they went through.