PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Mayor of Atlanta
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Governor of Georgia
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U.S. President
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia’s 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.
Detailed explanation-2: -For 55 years, since the famous march over the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma left him bloody and beaten in the streets, Lewis was a courageous leader in the fight for equality and justice. He served as inspiration and example for generations of activists and was known as the “Conscience of the Congress.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Lewis was a civil rights leader with the Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and he and other activists spent the summer of 1961 leading a Freedom Ride to protest segregation in the Deep South.
Detailed explanation-4: -Best Known For: One of the “Big Six” leaders of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, John Lewis continued to fight for people’s rights since joining Congress in 1987. During the civil rights struggle, Lewis was arrested approximately 40 times. Lewis was the youngest speaker at the March on Washington in 1963.