Pattie Baker
5 min readSep 25, 2017
Victoria of Bicycle Tours of Atlanta at a mural of Congressman John Lewis

The Answers Are in the Streets

You don’t need to go to history books to try to understand what African Americans are trying to explain to those of us who don’t share their lived experiences. In fact, don’t go there because you won’t find the answers (unless they’re the astounding MARCH trilogy of graphic novels by Civil Rights icon, John Lewis).

The answers are in the streets — in the buildings that you may not know were built with slave and prison labor, the…