Ultimately, the ending of the speech was changed before Lewis delivered it. “They said, ‘John, that doesn’t sound like you.’ That’s what Dr. The series is written by Lewis and Andrew Aydin, and illustrated and lettered by Nate Powell. “They said ‘John, you can’t use that,’” Lewis recalled. The Marchtrilogy is an autobiographical black and white graphic noveltrilogy about the Civil rights movement, told through the perspective of civil rights leader and U.S. March: Book One (Oversized Edition) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin: 9781603093835 : Books The groundbreaking graphic-novel memoir by a living legend of the civil rights movement, March: Book One, is now available in an oversized hardcover edition. The goal of that march was to scare Georgia’s citizens and convince them to leave the Confederate cause. He was referring to ‘Sherman’s March to the Sea’, a Civil War march led by Union General William T. Lewis recalled that he intended to end the speech by saying, “If we do not see meaningful progress here today the day will come when we will not confine our marching on Washington, but we will be forced to march through the South the way Sherman did - nonviolently.” While most of the speech was viewed as “radical” by many, Lewis felt it was the end of the speech that people really didn’t like. “People being beaten and the bombings…so he was talking about things that we knew about.” “He talked about what was actually happening in the field,” Doris Derby, a volunteer with SNCC, told TIME.
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