With the help of illustrator Nate Powell, a civil rights legends's memoirs become a striking graphic novel.
by Dominic Umile
When the severely beaten body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River in 1955, word didn't have to travel far in order to reach John Lewis. The now Georgia congressman and longtime civil rights activist was a year older than Till when news of his murder made its way to nearby Troy, Alabama, where Lewis was born and raised.…[ Read more ]