Picture Books

John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement

Picture book. By Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson. Illustrated by Benny Andrews. 2006. 32 pages.
The life of Civil Rights Movement activist and Congressman John Lewis.

Time Periods: 20th Century, 1961
Themes: Voting Rights, African American, Civil Rights Movements
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9781584302506A strikingly illustrated book, with the story of John Lewis, civil rights organizer and later a Congressman from Georgia. The book is appropriate for students in upper elementary grades and above. It details Lewis’s life, from his Freedom Rides to integrate Greyhound buses, to the March on Washington, to voting rights struggles in Selma, Alabama.

ISBN: 9781584302506 | Lee and Low Books

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