"Arrested for trying to get Republicons to do their Job.."
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Thanks to our reps for standing tall!
John Lewis has been here before, he is not afraid of a battle
John Lewis was born to a family of sharecroppers outside of Troy, Alabama, at a time when African Americans in the South were subjected to a humiliating segregation in education and all public facilities, and were effectively prevented from voting by systematic discrimination and intimidation.
From an early age, John Lewis was committed to the goal of education for himself, and justice for his people. Inspired by the example of Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Montgomery bus boycott, he corresponded with Dr. King and resolved to join the struggle for civil rights.
After attending segregated public schools in Pike County, Alabama, he graduated from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee and completed a Bachelor's in Religion and Philosophy at Fisk University. As a student he made a systematic study of the techniques and philosophy of nonviolence, and with his fellow students prepared thoroughly for their first actions. They began with sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. Day after day, Lewis and his fellow students sat silently at lunch counters where they were harassed, spit upon, beaten and finally arrested and held in jail, but they persisted in the sit-ins. In 1961, Lewis joined fellow students on the Freedom Rides, challenging the segregation of interstate buses. In the Montgomery bus terminal he was again attacked by a mob and brutally beaten.
Lewis was one of the founding members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and served as its president from 1963 to 1966, when SNCC was at the forefront of the student movement for Civil Rights. By 1963, he was recognized as one of the "Big Six" leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, along with Dr. King, Whitney Young, A. Phillip Randolph, James Farmer and Roy Wilkins. He was one of the planners and keynote speakers of the March on Washington in August 1963, the occasion of Dr. King's celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech.
They all stood strong here Cha, they stood for all Americans!
getting arrested to bring attention to the fact that the teaorrists in the House won't do their JOB, she!
Thank you for this history of John Lewis' life of Activism! What a guy! I love him! 
Thanks She 
Manana!
Excellent point about the teaKoch publicons whining about others not workng but they won't do their jobs. Even though they're still getting paid Tax Payers' Money for Loafing, Lying, Loafing, Lying..
Sprinkler of the House
Dear lord, the man is an embarrassment.
Totally unreal, she.. is it any wonder he's leaving voluntarily next year? At least he has two brain cells left to figure that out... at least that's what I read. oh wait a minute.. I just did a search and it's seems that may have been wrong. So scratch the brain cells.
