His parents said they weren't willing to go through it. John had to talk it over with his parents because this lawsuit could put his whole family in danger. King who offered to support him in his endeavor if he really wanted to sue the school. He felt as though he weren't doing enough to support the social justice movement, so he decided to try to transfer to Troy State, which only white people attended. At age sixteen, John delivered his first sermon and had his picture put in the paper for it.Īfter high school, John decided to go to a college for ministers in Nashville through a work study program. King for using his position as a preacher to reach people and help organize the bus boycott. Then he learned that he was supporting Rosa Parks in her case.
His dad did not punish him and learned how important education was to John. John loved school and didn't want to miss therefore, he would hide and then run for the school bus when he saw it drive up.
That fall his father asked him to skip school to help with the harvesting on the family farm. He stayed two months then happily returned to his family. Although they occasionally feared for their safety as they drove, John enjoyed the trip, including his first ride on an escalator in the big city. John then flashes back to 1951 when his uncle offered to drive him north to New York to visit some relatives. He would hold funeral services when they died, and he even tried to baptize them. When he was given a Bible and decided he wanted to be a preacher, he would practice his sermons on his chickens. He had an affinity for the chickens and treated them as his friends. This observation leads John to a flashback to his childhood on a farm in Alabama. The young boys notice that John has several statues of chickens in his office. John stops in his office and greets some visitors who were only expecting to see his office, not actually meet Mr. where Congressman John Lewis is waking up, getting dressed, and preparing to attend the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The scene then jumps to Januin Washington D.C. This scene acts as a prologue to the book March. They are then assaulted and have tear gas thrown at them. The police tell them to turn around and they choose to kneel instead. The first in the trilogy, this graphic novel based on the life of John Lewis, opens with a group of African Americans marching across a bridge.
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