Key People
Who is the author and main narrator of March: Book One?
Who is John Lewis
In what year did the Nashville sit-ins begin?
What is 1960
What did John Lewis do with his chickens that showed his natural gift
He preached to them
What city became the center of sit-in training and nonviolent protest for John Lewis and other students?
Nashville, Tennessee
What U.S. state was John Lewis born in?
Alabama
Which preacher helped John Lewis begin his activist journey?
Who is Martin Luther King
What was John Lewis’s first arrest for?
Participating in a nonviolent sit-in at a lunch counter
The name of black magazines and newspapers introduced by the librarian.
Jet, Ebony, The Baltimore Afro-American, Or The Chicago Defender.
What college did John lewis want to attend?
Troy State
What nickname did John Lewis often use to describe his activism?
Getting into “good trouble”
What role did Jim Lawson play in the civil rights movement?
He trained students in nonviolence.
What bridge is featured in the opening pages of the book as protestors march across it?
Edmund Pettus Bridge
John was told to never put a Blank number under a setting hen?
Even
A movement that went on longer than one year?
The Boycott on buses
Which U.S. president awarded John Lewis the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011?
Barack Obama
Which family member first supported John Lewis’s education and preaching?
Who is Uncle Otis
What happened at the second sit-in that made it more intense than the first?
More aggressive opposition and eventual arrests
What major historical event frames the book (present-day scenes)?
Barack Obama’s inauguration
What was the name of the movement that trained protestors in nonviolence, which John Lewis joined?
SNCC: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Nashville Student Movement
For how many years did John Lewis serve as a U.S. Congressman?
33 years
What were the names of the two sons John Lewis met on page 18 in the office building.
Jacob and Esau
What states did John and Uncle Otis drive through on their trip north?
Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky
What year did Brown Vs. The Board of Education take place.
1954
What phrase stuck with John Lewis, even though he didn’t fully understand its meaning at the time?
Behold the lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.
What major event in 1965 did John Lewis help lead, where he was beaten by police on a bridge in Selma?
Bloody Sunday (on the Edmund Pettus Bridge)