FIGHTING WITH LOVE: THE LEGACY OF JOHN LEWIS, by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, Jan. 9, 2024, Hardcover, $18.99 (ages 4-8)
Fighting With Love: The Legacy of John Lewis, by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome, tells the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader.
John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights when he was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a movement that changed the nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always his work and legacy live on. —Synopsis provided by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” — John Lewis
Considered one of the Big Six leaders of the civil rights movement, John Lewis helped make powerful change. Fighting With Love tells Lewis’ story, beginning with his childhood and ending with the beginning of the “Bloody Sunday” march across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965.
Fighting With Love shares the events that led up to Lewis joining the civil rights movement, and the reason why he always fought with love.
Author Lesa Cline-Ransom celebrates Lewis’ legacy with warm and understanding prose and through thorough research. Illustrator James E. Ransome brings Lewis’ life and words to life through found, painted and purchased papers with pencil drawings. This collage style adds dimension and emotion throughout.
An excellent author’s note goes into further details of Lewis’ life, and a comprehensive timeline covers his important moments from birth to death. A section on quote sources places all of the inspiring things Lewis said from the book in one place.
Fighting With Love is an excellent biography, and historical and Black History Month resource.
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