John Lewis Freedom Movement

After a couple protest, white people started to lose their patience and take justice in their own hands. On February 27th, 1960, another sit-in took place, and violence got an invitation too. While white people were beating them, Lewis reminds. “Violence does beget violence, but the opposite it’s just as true” (Lewis p. 100). In other words, they were being obtaining a violent response from his non-violent actions, but inside they know that it was the only way to make them see the truth at their try to desegregate the lunch counters, John Lewis goes to jail for the first time.

The graphic memoir, March, is a biography about Congressman John Lewis’ young life in rural Alabama which provides a great insight into lives of black families in 1940s and 50s under Jim Crow and segregation laws. March opens with a violent march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which the gruesome acts later became known as “Bloody Sunday,” during this march, 600 peaceful civil rights protestors were attacked by the Alabama state troopers for not listening to their commands. The story then goes back and forth depicts Lewis growing up in rural Alabama and President Obama’s inauguration in 2009. This story of a civil rights pioneer, John Lewis, portrays a strong influence between geography, community, and politics. The correlation between these pillars of March is that they have to coexist with other in order for John Lewis to exist that the world knows today.

John Lewis was a Civil Rights Movement Leader in the 1940. John Lewis was UMW, long-time labor leader who organized. He also led the first important unskilled workers labor union, called in to represent union during sit-down strike. John Lewis is known for many things, he even won awards like the Golden Plate Award given by the Academy, The Martin Luther Peace Prize, the Preservation Hero Award

If I was a voter in the election between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, I will choose to voter for Andrew Jackson. He was a man that he learned from his life and his experience. He was living with poor people and he know how they think and live but he also experienced the life of rich people. he knows how make decision based on what he see and what he knows. I choose to vote for him because I feel that he is closer to most American people and not just the minority.

In order to do this, they were willing to break any laws they deemed necessary. In the book, this can be seen in many instances. After one sit-in at the downtown lunch counters in Nashville, the police showed up and arrested many of the protestors. Lewis stated, "82 of us went to jail that day" (1:104). It was the first of many arrests for him.

Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. The project also set up dozens of Freedom Schools throughout Mississippi to aid the local black population. The projects leadership and funding came from the SNCC and COFO, along with hundreds of white college students in the north. In 1963, the SNCC organized a mock vote for blacks, which gave them a chance to prove they were capable of understanding politics. The civil rights activists from both organizations and the white volunteers from the north faced many challenges during the campaign.

After the parents found out their kids were in jail they wanted to help with the protest. After 3 weeks in jail a singer and some northern people helped with the bail money. When the kids were bailed out they went back to their normal lives and then shortly after the civil rights act of 1964 came. After the children's march all the 250,000 kids that participated it are very successful now.

The injustices started to reveal themselves to the public. By that time, everyone believed in segregation. Then the boycotts began. The stage sit in at the “whites only” counter, the

Then the court case, Brown v. Board of Education, ended “separate but equal”, and started the integration process. The integration had started, but African Americans still could not vote, so Martin Luther King lead thousands in the Selma Marches. The voting rights act was signed, and everyone could easily vote. The marches were essential

At night when everybody was marching or in the streets taking a break, police officers would come, shoot the lights out in the street so no marchers could see them. The police officers then beat them. Sometimes, the marchers would go in corn fields to get sleep instead of walking all night or sleeping on the streets. Cops and police

The Freedom Riders were a group of civil rights activists who, in the early 1960s, rode buses through the American South to challenge segregation and racial discrimination in public transportation. This movement was an important moment in the struggle for equality and justice in the United States, and it continues to have a profound impact on the nation to this day. The Freedom Riders were inspired by the nonviolent protests and acts of civil disobedience that were being led by figures like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the time. They believed that by challenging segregation on public buses, they could draw national attention to the deep-seated inequalities in the American South and help bring about change.

The Freedom Rides was a series of bus rides to the Deep South to protest against segregation laws. They believed that they should test the Supreme Court ruling of Boynton v. Virginia and Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia. These declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. The South ignored these laws, and the federal government did nothing to stop them.

John Lewis’s life began like many black children’s lives began in 1940 America. In his book trilogy, March, written by him and co-author Andrew Aydin, and artist Nate Powell, Lewis recalls growing up in Troy, Alabama, surrounded by racism. As his progressed life, his mindset did as well. He went through many life-changing events, but three explicitly led to create his determined character to power through the struggle of the fluctuations in the Civil Rights movement: receiving his first Bible, discovering nonviolent protesting tactics, and his first arrest. All these experiences led to the development of Lewis’s strong and resilient personality.

The African-American Civil Rights Movement was very influential in its time; and more specifically, the Freedom Rides that took place were the epitome of the movement that brought down the racial barriers of segregation. This paper specifically focuses on the precursor events to the Freedom Rides, the major events that took place during the rides, and how the effects of the rides shaped history and redefined civil rights in modern-day America. Leading up to the Freedom Rides, the Supreme Court issued two rulings that denounced Plessy v. Ferguson, which were Irene Morgan v. The Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia. These rulings mandated a halt to the segregation on public buses and declared it to be unconstitutional. The main

Throughout his journey, Lewis related with other preachers, specifically, to Martin Luther King Jr. Although in the beginning, Lewis did not personally know King, his speeches were very touching and heartfelt to him. John Lewis describes a connection he had with King, as a preacher. One Sunday morning Lewis heard one of King’s sermons for the first time.