How Did John Lewis Fight For Equality

Among all the civil right leaders on the March on Washington D.C only one is a living today still fighting for equality. John Lewis was an iconic civil rights leader during 1960’s in the fight for civil rights for black people and desegregation of the south. Lewis started on a small farm in 1940’s where he tended the chickens as a young boy. As Lewis grow up he had to go through life changing that open his eyes to the injustice around him, without this moments he would not have become the great civil right leader he is today. Some of those memorable pivotal turning Lewis had to go though were the journey to Buffalo he took with his uncle Otis, listening and engaging with Mather Luther King, the pressure of stacking up to civil right speaker

They set their eyes on desegregating the south because they still had laws at state level allowing segregation. Lewis and the Big six members of the march planned a protest for the government to enforce equal hiring rights and the desegregation law. They decided to hold the March on Washington D.C on August 28, 1963. John Lewis was the sixth speaker that day. He wants to talk about the struggle he went through in the fight for equality, and talk about the people that inspired him to the person he is today even if there revered as bad characters’. In the book, Lewis maintains that “Some people are very concerned about some of the things you’re going to say in the speech” (Lewis and Aydin 2:156). Lewis Point is that his speech is either too honest or foretelling that some people in the community don’t want to hear. Lewis later explains that he did not want to change any part of his speech, but he was willing to change certain sections of his speech. Here Lewis states that “It was a strong Speech and that it represented the position of SNCC” (Lewis and Aydin 2:157). In making this comment, Lewis argues that he wants to talk about the organization that not only he is the leader of but was the group how had a critical key in challenging a lot of the segregation rules that apply at the state level. When Lewis heard MLK speech it was moving. In Lewis view, “Everything we sought through the beatings and the blood, through the triumphs and failures, everything we Dared to Imagine about a NEW America, a BETTER America.” (Lewis And Aydin 2:173). Lewis Was able to feel the power and strength coming from MLK I had a Dream speech. The speech that MLK did that day reminded Lewis of the struggles he when trough and the triumphs they have accomplished by working together. Lewis also mentions in the book “the world would NEVER FORGET.” (Lewis And Aydin 2:172).