March. Book Three (2016)

Won: National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 2016; Michael L. Printz Award, Coretta Scott King Author Award and Sibert Medal, 2017. The first book to win both the National Book Award and the Printz, and the moment the trilogy's run of honors peaked. Congressman John Lewis tells his own civil rights story with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, and this final volume covers the Freedom Summer of 1964 and the march from Selma. Start with Book One if you can; the trilogy works as one long memoir. Powell's black-and-white art makes the violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge hard to look at, as it should be.