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Geek History Lesson

322: March Book One (Book Club)

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the life of the recently deceased American hero Congressman John Lewis, we're reading his graphic novel MARCH Book One. Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation. You can pick up a copy of the comic here: https://amzn.to/3hkG6f4  Also, don't forget about our next graphic novel -- JUPITER JET AND THE FORGOTTEN RADO - is on sale -- Oct 07, 2020. Pre-order with your local comic shop today! DIAMOND CODE: JAN208635 Or Pre-order on AMAZON: https://amzn.to/2OiUcBb    GET OUR RECOMMENDED READING from this episode here: http://geekhistorylesson.com/recommendedreading   Follow the show on TWITTER - https://twitter.com/GHLPodcast Make sure to visit our Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/geekhistorylesson You can find Ashley at https://twitter.com/AshleyVRobinson and Jason at https://twitter.comJawiin. Thanks for showing up to class today. Class dismissed!

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0:00.0

So you've arrived.

0:02.0

You head to the brasserie, then the terrace.

0:05.0

Cocktail?

0:06.0

Don't mind if I do.

0:08.0

You raise your glass to another guest because you both know the holidays just beginning.

0:14.0

And you're only in Terminal 3.

0:18.0

Welcome to Virgin Atlantic's unique upper class clubhouse experience

0:22.0

where you'll feel like you've arrived before you've taken off.

0:26.0

Virgin Atlantic, see the world differently.

0:30.0

March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights,

0:35.3

meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation.

0:40.4

Rooted in Lewis's personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the

0:44.2

broader civil rights movement. And that is because your book club on March book one is now in

0:49.2

session. Hello and I'm Jason. I like to Geek History Lesson. I'm Ashley Victoria Robinson.

1:08.0

And I'm Jason. I like to walk across Bridges Inman. Welcome to your Mind University.

1:12.0

This is the podcast where we take a book, a character, a construct

1:15.7

and tell you everything you need to know about it in a little bit less than an hour. And this week,

1:20.5

it's a very special episode. It's a very special episode because not only are we going to be talking

1:25.2

about what I think is probably one of the greatest Americans of all time, but we

1:30.7

are going to be talking about the book that that greatest American of all time wrote,

1:35.0

which is even doubler in specialness.

1:38.0

Me no English real well.

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