![]() Both, for example, seem to regard faith in the eventual triumph of good as an ethical imperative. On the things that appear to matter most to Meacham, he and Lewis are, in his view, in almost complete unison. “His Truth Is Marching On” would have benefited from more creative tension between its author and his hero. It was particularly daunting for a vulnerable, Southern teenager in the circumstances of the early 1960s. ![]() But they urged him to avoid civil rights activism, which they termed “that mess.” To pursue his fight against racial segregation and his quest to create “the Beloved Community” - what he later described as “nothing less than the Christian concept of the Kingdom of God on earth” - Lewis had to reject his parents’ counsel. Even more difficult was disobeying relatives and associates whom you loved. To disobey White strangers with whom you shared no affection was one thing. It entailed confronting Blacks who had accommodated themselves to pigmentocracy. The other was a fight within Black communities. It entailed confronting White authorities. The movement battled on two fronts: One was the external fight against white-supremacist policies. The first has to do with a feature of the Black freedom movement that is often neglected. ![]() “ His Truth Is Marching On” makes two important points especially well.
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