I’m finally caught up on this blog, posting my most recent review from Insta. While I didn’t love the construction of this book, I truly appreciated its honesty and its history. If I hadn’t already John Lewis’s memoir (Walking with the Wind), then this book would have taught me so much. But since it covers most or many of the same events in Lewis’s powerful memoir, I learned less in the historical aspect and more in that it’s another person’s experience, and everyone embeds their trauma from Civil Rights activism in a different way. No matter the book, though, no one can walk away from any of these memoirs without feeling overwhelmed at the sacrifices made and the lives lost. The Movement brought change, but it also brought devastation to those on the front lines.