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ABOUT THE AUTHORS LEWIS is the U.S. Rep~entative

JOIIN . , fifth congressional distnct _\ for Georgta s_ . widely known for

d n Amencan icon an a . I ·viJ rights movement. his role in t te c1 .

a student at American Bapost Theo-As . ·n 1959 Lewis organized I · cal Senunary 1 '

ogi tions at segregated lunch sir-in demonstra counters in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1961, he volunteered to participate m the Fr~e-dom Rides, which challenged segregaoon at interstate bus tenninals across the South. He was beaten severely by angry n:1-obs and arrc<ted by police for challen_gmg the injustice of'1im Crow" segregaaon m the South.

From 1963 to 1966, Lewis was Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinaiing Conunittee (SNCC). As head ofSNCC, Le~is became a nationally rccogmzcd figt:re . dubbed one of the "Big Six" leaders of the ClVll nghts movement. At the age of 2.1_ he was an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington m

Augiist 1963. In l 964, John Lewis coordinated SNCC efforts to organize voter registration drives

and community action programs during the Mississippi Freedom Summer. Thl· following year, Lewis helped spearhead one of the most semina] moments of the civil rights movement. Together with Hosea Williams, another notable civil rights k,id-er, John Lewis Jed over 600 peaceful, orderly protesters across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. They intended to march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the need for voting rights in the state. The marcher; were attacked by Alabama state troopers in a brutal confrontation that became known as "Bloody Sunday." News broadcasts and photographs revealing the senseless cmel~-of the segregated South helped hasten the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Despite physical attacks, serious injuries, and more than 40 arrests, John Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence. After leaving SNCC in 1966, he continued to work for civil rights, first as Associate Director of the Field Foundation, then with the Southern Regional Council, where he became Executive Director of the Voter Education Project (VEP). In 1977, Lewis was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to direct more than 250,000 volunteers of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency.

In 1981, Lewis was elected to the Atlanta City Council. He was elected 10 the U.S. House of Representatives in November 1986 and represented Georgia's fifth di1trict there ever since. In 2011 he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

Lewis' 1998 memoir l¾lking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement won nu-merous honors, including the Robert F. Kennedy, Lillian Smith, and Anisfic\d-Wolf Book Awards. His most recent book, Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change, has won the NAACP Image Award.

(From kft 10 nght): N••~ l'oweU, Congn,ununjohn Lcwii, Andrrw Aydin.

ANDREW AYDIN, an Atlanta native, currently serves as Digital Director & Policy Advisor to Rep.John Lewis in Washington, D.C. Previously, he served as communi-cations director and press secretary during Lewis' 2008 and 2010 re-election campaigns, as district aide to Rep. John Larson, and as special assistant to Connecticut Lt. Gov-ernor Kevin Sullivan. Andrew is a graduate of the Lovett School in Atlanta, Trinity College in Hartford, and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

NATE POWELL is a New York Times best-selling graphic novelist born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978. He began self-publishing at age 14, and graduated from the School of Visual Arts_ in 2000. His work includes the critically acclaimed Any Empire, S"."'llow Me Whole (wmner of the Eisner Award and Jgnatz Award, finalist for the LA TNunes Book Prize), The Year ef the &asts, The Silence ef Our Friends, and Sounds efYour

ame.

P~well appeared at the United Nations in 2011, discussing his contribution to the fiction anthology What You Wish For:A &okfor Daduralongside some of the world's foremost wnters of young adult fiction.

In addition to March, Powell is also the artist for th hi 1 da . . Ri rda • •1 · • e grap c nove a ptaoon of Rick o n '. mternaoonal bestseller Heroes ef01ympus:11te Lost Hero whil ..

and drawmg his own forthcomi hi ' e wntmg collection You Don't Say. ng grap c novel Cover and assembling the short story