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The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨
The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨
@tksst@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

✊✨ John Lewis was just 20 years old when he began using peaceful protest to challenge segregation, a commitment to "Good Trouble" that helped reshape the #USA.

This #video follows his life from a student activist in #Nashville and a Freedom Rider to the youngest speaker at the March on #Washington and a longtime leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/john-lewis-good-trouble-civil-rights-history-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=john-lewis-good-trouble

#activism #alabama #history #blackhistory #biography #civics #civilrights #education #georgia #government #law #president #racism #selma #supremecourt #tv #tennessee #voting #tksst

A black and white close-up photograph of a young John Lewis speaking into a cluster of microphones during the 1963 March on Washington.
A black and white close-up photograph of a young John Lewis speaking into a cluster of microphones during the 1963 March on Washington.
A black and white close-up photograph of a young John Lewis speaking into a cluster of microphones during the 1963 March on Washington.
The Kid Should See This

John Lewis, civil rights, non-violent protest, and the power of "Good Trouble"

John Lewis was 20 years old when he and other student activists sat down at a Nashville lunch counter and refused to leave. Under the segregation laws of
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