March Jim Lawson Analysis

During the 1960’s civil rights movement hundreds of blacks were unlawfully arrested and beaten in attempts to end segregation. Many civil rights leaders such as John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King jr. and professor, Jim lawson strived to teach and demonstrate others how to bring equality peace by using non-violence methods. Marching, protesting, and participating in sit-ins tested the strength, morals, and dignity of John Lewis and others. The trilogy March, tells a story about a young farm boy, John Lewis, who was inspired to help end segregation and how he used non-violence at protests, marches, and sit-ins. In attempts to inspire others to end segregation and use non violence, Jim lawson, a university professor at Fisk University held

The march on Washington was one of the first major speeches John Lewis gave. On August 28, 1963, Lewis spoke in front of hundreds outside the Lincoln Memorial. He said, “We march today for jobs and freedom, but we have nothing to be proud of,for hundreds and thousands of our brothers are not here, for they are receiving starvation wages, or no wages at all. While we stand here, there are sharecroppers in the fields working for less than three dollars a day. While we stand here, there are students in jail on trumped-up charges. Our brother James farmer, along with many others, is also in jail. We come here today with a great sense of misgiving, it is true that we support the administration's civil rights bill, we support it with great reservations, however unless Title III is put in. this bill, there nothing to protect the young children and women who must face police dogs and fire hoses in the south while they engage in the peaceful demonstrations.” (Lewis Book 2 107) John Lewis was trying to get the people of America to understand what horrific endeavors blacks had to endure for equality. Even when faced with such acts, they remained cal, sometimes silent and respectful, they never attacked their attackers. Instead, they found ways to connect to them, ways to understand what they felt. In books one and two of March, a story is told about a young boy who was inspired to make america better. John found different methods and helped inform other blacks how to have peaceful protests and nonviolent marches in efforts of ending discrimination and enforcing equality rights to blacks in