Building the Beloved Community After the civil rights movement, John Lewis moved from protest to politics. But he remained optimistic about the Black freedom struggles of the twenty-first century. John Lewis in Selma, Alabama 2015 (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images) His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham Random House, 2020, 368 pp. In a group photograph taken at the White House of the speakers at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, John Lewis stands obscured in the back row. At the time, Lewis was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and, at twenty-three, the youngest speaker at the march. âYouâve got to get out