Washington Monthly, May 1st, 1998
By John Lewis with Michael D'Orso Simon & Schuster, $25
John Lewis still can't remember how he got back to the church. The march had begun at Brown's Chapel, in Selma, Ala., just before 4 p.m. on March 7, 1965. Martin Luther King Jr. had been held up in Atlanta. Lewis, the young chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was to lead the 600 well-dressed marchers who had gathered to protest Alabama's systemic refusal to allow blacks to register to vote. Though billed as a pilgrimage to Montgomery, the crowd didn't really expect to get to the state capital, which was 54 miles ...
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