March: Book Three: List 2

by John Lewis
Written with Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell, Congressman John Lewis's award-winning graphic novel chronicles his experiences in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

This list covers pages 96–246.

Here are links to our lists for the graphic novel: List 1, List 2

Here are links to our lists for other volumes in the trilogy: March: Book One, March: Book Two
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  1. subscribe
    pay as a contribution to a charity or service
    A political party should be open to all the people who wish to subscribe to its principles...
  2. repudiate
    reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust
    It is essential that this convention repudiate, here and now, any doctrinaire, militant minority--whether communist, Ku Klux Klan, or bircher--which would subvert this party to purposes alien to the very basic tenets which gave this party birth.
  3. doctrinaire
    stubbornly insistent on theory rather than practicality
    It is essential that this convention repudiate, here and now, any doctrinaire, militant minority--whether communist, Ku Klux Klan, or bircher--which would subvert this party to purposes alien to the very basic tenets which gave this party birth.
  4. subversion
    the act of overthrowing or destroying, as a government
    The Republican party is in real danger of subversion by a radical, well-financed, and highly disciplined minority.
  5. emancipation
    freeing someone from the control of another
    Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences.
  6. despotism
    dominance through threat of punishment and violence
    Wrongly understood--as it has been so tragically in our time--it leads first to conformity, and then to despotism.
  7. coalition
    an organization of people involved in a pact or treaty
    Rauh intended his witnesses to represent the broad coalition--black and white, women and men--gathered to support the freedom party.
  8. disenfranchised
    deprived of the rights of citizenship, as the right to vote
    For all the disenfranchised millions of this earth -- whether they be in Mississippi, Alabama, behind the Iron Curtain, floundering in the mire of South Africa apartheid, or freedom-seeking person in Cuba who have now gone three years with an election --
  9. incensed
    angered at something unjust or wrong
    After their testimony, the delegates went back to their hotel where they learned that President Johnson had pre-empted Mrs. Hamer's testimony with a trumped-up press conference. They were incensed.
  10. erode
    become ground down or deteriorate
    Meanwhile, Johnson's people were working in back channels, twisting arms and calling in favors to erode our support on the credentials committee.
  11. acclamation
    enthusiastic approval or recognition
    The next night, August 26th, the delegation again took to the floor, watching silently as Lyndon Johnson was nominated for president by acclamation.
  12. cynicism
    a pessimistic feeling of distrust
    Lingering feelings of cynicism, mistrust of government, and deep resentment of "white liberals" would cast shadows over Southern politics for decades to come.
  13. delegation
    a group of representatives
    Harry Belafonte invited a delegation from SNCC to accompany him on a three-week trip to Africa to speak to young people and share ideas about what we were doing in the American south.
  14. seditious
    in opposition to a civil authority or government
    A year later, he spent one hundred days in prison in Americus, Georgia, facing a death sentence for "seditious conspiracy"--in other words, lying down during a nonviolent protest.
  15. astute
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
    The young people we met were very astute, and far more radical than those of us in SNCC.
  16. radical
    a person who has revolutionary ideas or opinions
    Back home, we were considered the radicals, by the press, by most of society...even by the movement.
  17. transcend
    go beyond the scope or limits of
    Malcolm was saying, in effect, that it is a struggle for the poor--for those who have been left out and left behind--and that it transcends race.
  18. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
    The intimacy that had allowed for decision-making by consensus had all but disappeared.
  19. chafe
    feel extreme irritation or anger
    Salt-of-the-earth field staff chafed against college-educated intellectuals pushing a more political agenda.
  20. socialist
    a political advocate of state control of industry
    But calling someone a "communist" or a "socialist" is the intellectual equivalent of throwing from your back foot.
  21. coup
    a sudden and decisive change of government by force
    What's this I've been hearing about an attempted "coup" against SNCC leadership?
  22. injunction
    a judicial remedy to prohibit a party from doing something
    We will hold a mass meeting on January 2nd to break Judge Hare's injunction and concentrate our efforts on voter registration and mass demonstrations in Dallas County.
  23. retribution
    the act of taking revenge
    Only one church in Selma was willing to risk the potential of retribution for hosting the kick-off mass meeting: Brown Chapel Ame.
  24. vouch
    give personal assurance; guarantee
    Amelia Boynton, who was there to vouch for anyone who might make it into the courthouse to register, caught Sheriff Clark's attention.
  25. mockery
    showing your contempt by derision
    This courthouse is a serious place of business! You seem to think it's Disneyland or somethin' on parade. You came to make a mockery of this courthouse and we are not going to have it!
  26. progressive
    favoring or promoting modern or innovative ideas
    Despite Atlanta's progressive reputation, the dinner was almost an embarrassment when many business leaders refused to attend--that is, until Coca-Cola chairman Robert Woodruff, arguably the most powerful person in the city, made it clear that Atlanta would properly honor its newest Nobel laureate.
  27. faction
    a dissenting clique
    People would do well to listen to Dr. King and give him what he's asking for--and give it to him fast--before some other factions come along and try to do it another way.
  28. vigil
    a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
    Sheriff Clark quickly resumed his vigil over the Dallas County courthouse.
  29. consign
    give over to another for care or safekeeping
    Consigning these mortal remains to earth, the common mother of all, secure in the knowledge that what we place in the ground is no more now a man, but a seed--which, after the winter of our discontent, will come forth again to meet us.
  30. constituent
    a citizen who is represented in a government by officials
    He was murdered by the irresponsibility of every politician, from governors on down, who had fed his constituents the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism.
  31. detrimental
    causing harm or injury
    It will be detrimental to your safety to continue this march, and I am saying this is an unlawful assembly--you are ordered to disperse!
  32. disperse
    move away from each other
    It will be detrimental to your safety to continue this march, and I am saying this is an unlawful assembly--you are ordered to disperse!
  33. impromptu
    without advance preparation
    Soon, Brown Chapel was filled for an impromptu mass meeting.
  34. notorious
    known widely and usually unfavorably
    After that night's rally, three unitarian ministers--James Reeb, Orloff Miller, and Clark Olsen--got turned around on their way home from dinner, and ended up near a notorious hangout for Klansmen.
  35. convocation
    the act of calling to a meeting
    For the cries of pain, and the hymns and protests of oppressed people have summoned into convocation all the majesty of this great government.
Created on Fri Jan 05 10:54:57 EST 2018 (updated Mon Apr 08 14:22:06 EDT 2019)

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