This is one of the best comics I've ever read. I am so, so impressed with what Congressman John Lewis, writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell have created together. This is a very text-heavy story but Powell balances out pages full of famous speeches with quiet moments- sometimes moving, sometimes devastating. The morning of the Selma march gets a full page, as does the murder of two drives who were ferrying marchers back home once it was over. This book covers many well-known events including the assassination of JFK, the election of Lyndon B Johnson and the signing of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. This comic made these events feel more real and immediate to me than any other book I've read about that era. But this book isn't just history. Some of Johnson's speeches feel as if they could have been given yesterday. The Voting Rights Act still needs desperate defense. This book was written during an Obama administration; under a Trump administration we may well need it as a guide-book on how to protest in the face of indifference and danger.