March: Book One And March By John Lewis And Martin Luther King Jr.

John Lewis was most definitely a man of his time, alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. These men changed the country in many ways and some more than they could have imagined. March: Book One and March: Book Two gives us, the reader, first point of view from John Lewis and what it was like as a colored man in the times of segregation. He not only was born into a time of hate and racism, but he grew up with it and decided that he wanted to make a difference at a young age.
As a child, Lewis grew up on a large farm with his siblings and parents. They owned a bunch of chickens and while the others simply took them to the yard to feed, he did not. He felt the need to talk to them first and was able to tell the chickens apart. He would talk to them

He did just that.
For me, the most meaningful part of the books was towards the end of March: Book One.
At that moment in the book, Lewis and the other protesters review their policies of non-violence. When so many other people, the white people, were so hateful and so cruel to the people of color, Lewis and the protesters vowed to stay non-violent when they easily could have fought back or retaliated, but they did not. That takes some of the strongest people with the most courage and strongest of wills to not return the hate and violence but to take the abuse the white people gave to them.
That was the purpose of the March: Book One and March: Book Two, that a person, man or woman, can make a significant difference without the use of violence but the use of tolerance and patience. John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr. had a vision of equality and desegregation in the country even though they started with one area at a time. However, their plan of action had bled farther and farther through the states from the south moving upwards and across the nation and one of the most recognizable of actions is the Brown v. Board of