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"March: Book One" by John Lewis, List 1

Fri Sep 16 10:29:30 EDT 2016
By Vocabulary.com (NY)Visual Thesaurus Moderator
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
conducive
Your march is not conducive to the public safety — you are ordered to disperse and go back to your church or to your homes!
disperse
Your march is not conducive to the public safety — you are ordered to disperse and go back to your church or to your homes!
inauguration
We're from Atlanta, and we've come for the inauguration — I was bringing my boys here so they could see John Lewis' office.
sharecropper
It was every penny my father had to his name, money earned by tenant farming. My father was a sharecropper.
persecute
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
righteousness
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
congregation
I imagined that they were my congregation.
eulogy
I would gather whichever of my sisters and brothers and cousins I could. And I would deliver a eulogy.
desegregation
The U.S. Supreme Court had handed down its decision in the school desegregation case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka.
integrated
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.
injustice
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.
watershed
At the time, I could only find one newspaper article. But 1955 was a watershed year.
defiance
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.
boycott
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.
dominate
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.

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