The first in the trilogy, this graphic novel based on the life of John Lewis, opens with a group of African Americans marching across a bridge. The police tell them to turn around and they choose to kneel instead. They are then assaulted and have tear gas thrown at them. Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.
