Bus boycotts lasted for months, not just days.Īs states like Texas and North Carolina pass voter restriction laws following the Supreme Court decision striking down a portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, there's never been a more pertinent time to remember the sacrifices made to ensure that all citizens have the opportunity to be represented. While protesting, courageous people like Lewis endured beatings from by fellow citizens and police some even refused bail and accepted jail time rather contribute to an unjust system by paying fines. Too often and too soon it is perceived as merely a few turbulent summers in the 1960s, when in reality thousands of people worked collaboratively and independently for more than a decade to try and enact change. Good trouble, necessary trouble.'Ĭo-authored by Lewis's aide, Andrew Aydin, and drawn by award-winning graphic novelist Nate Powell, March involves quite a bit of autobiographical detail, though there is a great deal to be learned (or remembered) about the larger civil rights movement. >'I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. Good trouble, necessary trouble,' said Lewis. 'I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. ' has been translated into more than four languages, and it's been read and inspired people in the Middle East, in Vietnam, especially in Egypt.' 'We read the book in Nashville, Tennessee, and we started sitting in,' said Lewis at the recent Book Expo America.

King and the 1955 bus boycotts inspired by Rosa Parks while offering recommendations for non-violent protest tactics borrowed from Mahatma Gandhi.

Titled Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, the comic told the story of Dr. King's words are rightfully in the forefront of most people's minds today, Congressman John Lewis – who spoke at the March on Washington, participated in lunch counter sit-ins, marched miles for social justice, and was jailed on several occasions – remembers another lesser-known but still influential tool for getting out the message of the movement: a 10-cent comic book. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the historic civil rights protest where Dr. John Lewis by Eric Etheridge 1800 must credit photog

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