You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way. Images from that "Bloody Sunday" shocked the nation and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century.

MSNBC Live with Kendis Gibson and Lindsey Reiser. "When we were organizing voter-registration drives, going on the Freedom Rides, sitting in, coming here to Washington for the first time, getting arrested, going to jail, being beaten, I never thought -- I never dreamed -- of the possibility that an African American would one day be elected president of the United States,". As individuals, we may not live to see the end.'.

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Vivian, who was 95. The late Rep. John Lewis delivered one final message to Americans in a posthumous op-ed published Thursday, saying that “ordinary people with … “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and redeem the soul of America.” John Lewis made this statement on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 1, 2020 commemorating the tragic events of Bloody Sunday.

Once in Washington, he focused on fighting against poverty and helping younger generations by improving education and health care. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. Despite the attack and other beatings, Lewis never lost his activist spirit, taking it from protests to politics. This defining moment encapsulates five things he taught us about getting in good trouble. The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society. View the list I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way.

John Lewis made this statement on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 1, 2020 commemorating the tragic events of Bloody Sunday.

Angered by the unfairness of the Jim Crow South, he launched what he called "good trouble" with organized protests and sit-ins. We all live in the same house... and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. Earlier Saturday, Trump ordered that flags at the White House and on federal buildings be lowered to half-staff throughout Saturday to honor Lewis. Lewis, I am one of the people who beat you and your seat mate'" on a bus, Lewis said, adding the man said he had been in the KKK.

You have to say something; you have to do something.” This motto should apply in all aspects of our lives. It's another heartbreak in a year filled with them, as America mourns the deaths of nearly 140,000 Americans from Covid-19 and struggles to bring the virus under control. It's all going to work out. We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. To find a way to get in trouble.

I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.'

Fourteen pages.

Now we have black and white elected officials working together.