7/8/2023 0 Comments March book 2![]() ![]() ![]() They set off in two groups on long bus rides. They sent letters to President Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. ![]() They reviewed local and state laws along with the teachings of Ghandi, Thoreau, Emerson, and others. Walter Bergman, Jimmy McDonald, Charles Person, Ed Blankenheim, Genevieve Hughes, Albert Bigelow, Hank Thomas, and James Farmer. He arrived at the Fellowship House, run by Quakers, and met Freedom Riders Joe Perkins, Jim Peck, Elton Cox, Dr. Virginia decision which outlawed segregation on buses. In 1961 John saw an ad in The Student Voice, a SNCC publication, looking for people to test the Boynton vs. John led a protest to the violence during which twenty-six people were arrested. Sometimes the police would show up and use brutality to force the African Americans out of the ticket lines. They also tried stand ins at movie theaters where they would be refused admission. John was shocked that one human could treat another human so poorly. ![]() Their quiet protests in restaurants were met with more violent backlash, such as being closed in and having a fumigator to remove pests turned on. John then flashes back to his senior year of college when he attended American Baptist while also participating in the nonviolent protests against unfair treatment of the African Americans during the 1960's. The second book in the trilogy opens in the same way that the first one does with John Lewis attending the inauguration of Barack Obama. ![]()
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