When we think of people who made a real contribution to the betterment of America, John Lewis came to mind.
There isn’t a person in America whom the Civil Right Movement didn’t affect. Mr. Lewis was at The Selma to Montgomery marches which were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. . The African-American group known as the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) launched a voter registration campaign in Selma in 1963..
These marches were dangerous, there was no protection. During one of these marches Mr. Lewis suffered severe head wounds. He was seriously injured during the protesting. He braved having dogs sicced on him and was jailed numerous times.
He was one of the original Freedom Riders.
It was a movement involving the equality of all Americans. Especially those of African Americans.
One of the last two icons of the movement passed away yesterday. John Lewis and Cordy Tindell Vivian. He was an American minister, author, and close friend and lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement.
John Robert Lewis was an American politician and civil rights leader. He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district, serving in his 17th term in the House, having served since 1987, and is the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation.
John Lewis
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A. White, an award winning former librarian, who is also a long time member of Romantic Time and Publisher's Weekly. A. White has been writing for over fifteen years. She took classes in creative writing in college, specializing in ancient myths and legends. and later at a local community center while living in Chicago. In college she won the national contest to verbally list every country in the world, it's capital and ingenious language. Her works are mainly horror, fantasy, extreme, and sci-fi as well as, as some may says, "the truly strange predicament and puzzling." Books that I've written are "Clash with the Immortals, and eleven others which are part of the "Unholy Pursuit saga,". She has been working on the Chronicles since 2007. She wished to complete them all before introducing them to public so the readers wouldn't have to for the continuation to be written.
The ideas of the book come from classic literature such as whose work greatly influence the world world such as Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus, Euripides, Socrates, Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle and many more. The "Book of Enoch" influenced the usage of Azazael as a main character and love interest. I created the primary main character from the Chronicle of Saints. I wanted to show them as real flesh and blood with thoughts, desires and yearning as any human. Not as they are so often depicted. So I created one of my own to show her as a real human that everyone can relate to.
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May their souls rest in peace! Will be remembered for their good work.
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We all have a lot to thanks this man for. I was happy to see him given a state’s funeral.
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Yes, James, he was one of the last of the true American heroes. And yes, all Americans owe those like him for fighting the good fight for over sixty years.
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We truly lost a hero.
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Yes the world did.
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