John Lewis introduces his book March, to readers to express his journey into the Civil Rights Movement. He uses aspects like his surrounding and the prominent issues in not only his life but around him. He illustrates how events leading to the Civil Rights Movement and his involvement within his community to show where he is today. The book shows how racism, segregation, and civil rights have evolved through qualities like community and the change in politics. Lewis shows through March how geography, society, and politics reflect the involvement of activism toward civil rights leading up to the inauguration of Barrack Obama.
In March, Lewis lived in an isolated town in Alabama showing that geographically segregated from other communities, especially whites. The location was critical in March because it affected how races were being treated. Isolation was very evident in Lewis’s family because of their geographical location. One example of how isolation and geography correlated is through Lewis and his relationship towards the chickens. Lewis was close with the chickens because he was raised and on the farm with no one around him in close distance. Once he enters a new environment like New York, it’s illustrated that he was amazed or “wasn’t
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Whites and African Americans together in one community where race is not isolated from one another in any location is Lewis’ goal. Coming from Alabama that was unlikely to happen. Lewis is from Alabama, a tight-knit community, because of reason like politics and geography. Through a community action, a change in government was able to occur to help with segregation and with that came changes in parts of geography to reflect that racism was no longer prominent. Lewis exhibited through the book that geography, community, and politics were key features in showing his life and how he faced segregation and progressed passed