John Lewis, in the foreground holding a sign, demonstrates in downtown Nashville on March 23, 1963.Frank Empson—The Tennessean/USA Today Network DORIE LADNER: My sister and I met John Lewis in Jackson ...
As an 18-year-old student attending a training session for activists at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, John Lewis stuttered and struggled to read. A visiting professor mocked his ...
In 1965, as chair of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 25-year-old John Lewis led 600 protesters on the first march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, to intensify pressure on ...
John has always been one of my heroes, stubborn, courageous, principled, and kind, and with a streak of impish humor. Among his denim-clad peers in SNCC, he always dressed in a suit and tie—always.
It started at lunch counters in North Carolina and Nashville. Student activists decided that perhaps the most effective way to begin dismantling Jim Crow-era segregation laws was to sit down in places ...
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