March: Book One: Pages 1–75

by John Lewis
Written with Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell, Congressman John Lewis's award-winning graphic novel chronicles his experiences in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

This list covers pages 1–75.

Here are links to our lists for the graphic novel: List 1, List 2

Here are our lists for other volumes in the trilogy: March: Book Two, March: Book Three
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  1. conducive
    tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
    Your march is not conducive to the public safety — you are ordered to disperse and go back to your church or to your homes!
  2. disperse
    move away from each other
    Your march is not conducive to the public safety — you are ordered to disperse and go back to your church or to your homes!
  3. inauguration
    the ceremonial induction into a position
    We're from Atlanta, and we've come for the inauguration — I was bringing my boys here so they could see John Lewis' office.
  4. sharecropper
    a tenant farmer who owes a portion of each harvest for rent
    It was every penny my father had to his name, money earned by tenant farming. My father was a sharecropper.
  5. persecute
    cause to suffer
    Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  6. righteousness
    the quality of adhering to moral principles
    Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  7. congregation
    group that habitually attends a particular place of worship
    I imagined that they were my congregation.
  8. eulogy
    a formal expression of praise for someone who has died
    I would gather whichever of my sisters and brothers and cousins I could. And I would deliver a eulogy.
  9. desegregation
    incorporation of a formerly excluded group into a community
    The U.S. Supreme Court had handed down its decision in the school desegregation case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka.
  10. integrated
    designated as available to all races or groups
    I thought that, come fall, I'd be riding a state-of-the-art bus to a state-of-the-art school. An integrated school.
  11. injustice
    an unfair act
    But my parents' attitude didn't bother me nearly as much as those among the ministers at the church, who never mentioned these injustices in their sermons.
  12. watershed
    an event marking an important historical change of course
    At the time, I could only find one newspaper article. But 1955 was a watershed year.
  13. defiance
    an act boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
    In May, a second Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board prompted segregationist elected officials, like Senators James Eastland of Mississippi and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, to swear to the death their continued defiance of the court.
  14. boycott
    refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization
    So when Dr. King, as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, led a boycott of those buses, we felt like we were a part of it, too.
  15. dominate
    be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
    Looking back, it must've been the Spirit of History taking hold of my life —because in Nashville I'd meet people who opened my eyes to a sense of values that would forever dominate my moral philosophy.
Created on Fri Sep 16 10:29:30 EDT 2016 (updated Fri Jun 27 17:15:04 EDT 2025)

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