Cheyanne Stice Instructor Peters English 101 10:30 am 18 April 2023 Liberated. Do you know what this word means? The _(dictionary name) definition is " ___" (author pg). Have you ever felt this way? When have you felt this way and why? There is a man, you might have heard of him, John Lewis. Lewis is an African American who became a civil rights activist for people of color. He took many steps to get to where he did in making his vision of a better future for people of color possible and in existence, despite it feeling like the universe was working against him. If it were not for the feeling of liberation he gets, he may not have taken these life-changing steps in his life. John Lewis was a brave man who had worked up to involving himself …show more content…
Lewis was arrested for the first time doing what he felt was right, what he felt would make a positive difference for people of color. His first arrest was on February 27th of 1960. He was arrested for participating in a non-violent sit-in at a local diner in Nashville, Tennessee. He was led to do a non-violent sit-in because he first took a non-violent workshop with Jim Lawson on March 26th, 1958. He was encouraged to go to a non-violent workshop when he heard of it happening, possibly because one of his biggest role models, Martin Luther King Jr., preached and supported a non-violent movement that happened with Rosa Parks on the bus boycott. Martin Luther King Jr. became a role model for John when he heard him for the first time giving a sermon on the radio. The implication here is that John had been someone working towards being a Civil Rights activist for African Americans, without even knowing in the beginning. He did what he thought was best, not always or just for him, but also for the people around him. Lives would be altered if John Lewis did not take the difficult and important steps he did in his life that were encouraged to take by his feeling of