Teacher Guide

March Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

  • Consider some of Lewis's other books, such as Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement and Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, as well as his more recent graphic novel Run: Book One (published posthumously).
  • Have students check out other well-regarded biographies, autobiographies, and histories of important civil rights leaders and the movement more broadly, such as The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams, This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kay Mills, The Rebellious Life of...

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