Central Kansas Library System

After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the Deep South, they will be tested like never before. Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the young activists of the movement struggle with internal conflicts as well. But their courage will attract...

This graphic novel trilogy is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book one spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the...

A picture book biography of John Roy Lynch, one of the first African-Americans elected into the United States Congress.

Describes the life and adventures of Davy Crockett, the famous frontier settler, congressman, and legendary tall tale hero.

A profile of the woodsman, politician, and soldier who followed advice of his own motto, "Be sure you're right, then go ahead."