Review: His Truth Is Marching On

John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham

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I am grateful to have the opportunity to read this book on the day that John Lewis was crossing over the Edmund Pettis Bridge for the last time. This book took me on a review of Congressman John Lewis’s journey into infinity. I am grateful for the reminder of the total cost; the prepaid price was for my right to vote. I am thankful for the review of a history that ties me to the understanding of why my HBCU education was more significant than books and classes. My college years provided space and time that enabled me confidence beyond seeking a job and a title. The HBCU experience taught me the history that John Lewis lived to tell. It instilled in me the spirit of accountability to something bigger than myself and a responsibility to the next generation to ensure their rights and freedoms are respected and protected.

Jon Meacham so eloquently picked up the consistent story of “March” and expressed the greater truth and story of John Lewis. I feel re-engaged and reunited with the work of the young people in the Civil Rights Movement that fought for this nation to be free of the bondage of hate. I can only hope that it will speak to the entitled, the bigots, and the entrenched of the nation to move forward and not backward. I can only have faith that after COVID-19 and Marching in the streets, we the people will pick up and carry the torch that John Lewis passed. To Jon Meacham, thank you. I hope your narrative will encourage all Americans to start moving in a new united direction toward authentic progress to stand for a United States of America.