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March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

5.0

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I appreciate that John Lewis addressed the side of the movement - The Black Panthers - that was not necessarily committed to nonviolence. I think Stokely Carmichael’s appearances and Lewis’s thoughts on Malcolm X explained that he understood their approach to racism and respected it but just couldn’t act on it himself. The violence was graphic but necessary in this one, and it was very emotional to see those images, especially with our current American climate reflecting back too many of those violent responses from government agencies. In some ways, we have made great strides, but unfortunately, in too many other ways, we are still fighting all the same discriminatory practices Black people faced before. We have so much work to do.