About 60 years ago, our society here in the United States was very different from what it is now. African Americans suffered from injustices by law after the abolishment of slavery. Great leaders stood up to these injustices as their lives took precise paths that lead to a revolution they had a vision in. In the first two volumes of the March trilogy by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, we see their fates play out in peculiar ways and their dreams of justice eventually fulfilled. Fate and Dreams play key roles in several events in the text that has resulted in society as we know of today. The concept of being ‘woke’ is emphasized throughout the text, Lewis’ destiny had the opportunity to go awry at crucial points in the text, and John Lewis and…show more content… Because he is in his youth, the image also sends the message to the viewer of a rising generation that holds moral standards high as youth wake up. The last significant instance of waking is Lewis’ encounter with attorney general Robert Kennedy at the United States justice department. Lewis is at the justice department on behalf of his civil rights organization, SNCC. Kennedy pulls him aside after the SNCC’s protesting and states, “You, the young people of SNCC have educated me. You have changed me. Now I understand.” (Lewis & Aydin 152). In this quote, it is evident that Kennedy’s views of the racism the African American community faced had changed because of the impact John and others had made. Individuals waking up to the oppression that African Americans faced helped propagate the revolution for equal rights, whether powerful people like Kennedy or petty like the boy in…show more content… However, he would have never been such a leader had his fate not journey the narrow and straight road his life abided by. He even admits this when instead of fighting the court to go to Troy state, he takes part in sit-ins and freedom rides that lead him to leadership roles. John Lewis declares, “looking back, it must’ve been the spirit of history taking hold of my life—“ (Lewis and Aydin 73). Lewis looks back at that crucial time in his life acknowledges that US history was determined by what he did in his life. Later in his involvement in the freedom rides, he is prevented from going on a dangerous ride that could have resulted in his death. This prevention was in the form of an interview for a program that intended to send him abroad. He got the telegram partway through the ride just before the firebombing near Anniston, making it all the more astonishing that he managed to escape the dangerous encounter. Survivor from the encounter Hank Thomas explains just how dangerous this could’ve been for John with what he said in 2016 recalling the event. He said, “They tossed a firebomb into the rear of the bus, then pushed on the doors so we couldn’t get out. I remember someone saying to get low on the ground. I did, but when the smoke got in my lungs, I ran to the front. Then the hand of God intervened. The fire got to the gas tank and the back
