Conversation with Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell about “March”

Over the course of this semester in my Multicultural America Literature course, I have had conversations with various authors and scholars such as Kiku Hughes (Displacement), Lila Quintero Weaver (Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White), Eir-Anne Edgar and Michael Dando discussing Maus, Jennifer Morrison discussing Of Love and Dust, and more. We concluded the course by reading John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell’s March Trilogy. For the final lecture of the semester, Aydin and Powell joined me for a conversation, and today I want to talk some about what we discussed, notably Powell’s comments on presenting lengthy sections or entire speeches in a sequential art format and Powell and Aydin’s discussions about what March includes and doesn’t include and how the text opens up an avenue for students and educators to dive further into understanding and studying the Civil Rights Movement and history.

Recently, I wrote about Fannie Lou Hamer’s sequence in March: Book Three where we see her giving her speech in front of the Democratic National Committee’s credential committee in…