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- Congressman John Lewis, a leader of the civil rights movement who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was arrested 40 times between 1960 and 1966 for protesting racist laws and practices in the Jim Crow South.
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Jul 20, 2020 · Congressman John Lewis, a leader of the civil rights movement who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was arrested 40 times between 1960 and 1966 for protesting racist...
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Jul 7, 2014 · On July 7th, 1961, John Lewis was released from Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi after 37 days in prison on a charge of “disorderly conduct” — that is, refusing to follow segregation law.
Dec 1, 2016 · Long before he was a U.S. Representative, John Lewis was a young man locked in a struggle for civil rights. But was he ever arrested during his years of protest? If you asked that question to...
Jul 21, 2020 · The racist violence intensified and in Montgomery, a mob attack left John Lewis and James Zwerg battered and bloody.
John Lewis was arrested for the "disorderly conduct" of using a "white" bathroom while taking part in the Freedom Rides against segregation in Jackson, Mississippi on May 24, 1961.
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.
Jul 18, 2020 · Lewis was among the people who were imprisoned in the state’s notorious Parchman prison. A mug shot of John Lewis, taken after his arrest in Jackson, Mississippi, as a Freedom Rider. Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
