Mrs. Valenzuela
English 3 / Period 5
12 october 2017
March: The Story Comes To Life In WASHINGTON, D.C. activists were speaking out and marching for civil rights. John Lewis released a trilogy of graphic novels that tells his story during the March. Part of the story is Lewis' involvement in the civil rights movement, an effort for racial equality. In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. felt that these things should be done in nonviolent ways, even though he knew that African Americans were often the innocent victims of violence. Civil rights activists wanted to create one loud voice that would be heard everywhere. At Lincoln Memorial, activists gathered and rallied
on August 28, 1963. John Lewis challenged President John F. Kennedy, who favored civil rights laws but not marches and demonstrations for fear of more violence. Lewis said this, “We will not stop. If we do not get meaningful legislation out of this Congress, the time will come when we will not confine our marching to Washington…. But we will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity that we have shown here today…. We must say, 'Wake up, America. Wake up! For we cannot stop, and we will not be patient.”