Decades in print, key civil rights comic digital
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The comic book used to teach and inspire civil rights activists in the 1950s and 1960s is being released digitally amid increased interest in its role in the movement.
Top Shelf says that “Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story” was scanned using the original files from the 16-page comic first published in 1958 by the Nyack, N.Y.-based Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Its influence on that movement was cited by U.S. Rep. John Lewis. He said reading the comic inspired his involvement in the civil rights struggle in Tennessee.
It’s being sold digitally through Comixology, as well as for Amazon’s Kindle and through Apple’s iBookstore.
Andrew Aydin, who co-wrote Lewis’ graphic novel autobiography “March: Book One,” says the comic was used in FOR-run workshops on non-violence in the 1960s and later.
