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He was born in Troy, Alabama, inspired by MLK, the concepts of nonviolent protest and racial injustice to become a lead in the Civil Rights movement.
Who is John Lewis?
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What is onomatopoeia?
A bombing took place here that killed four little girls.
What was the 16th Street Baptist Church?
The acronym for this organization is SNCC.
What is Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee?
In 2009, he gave John Lewis a signed autograph with "Because of you, John" written on it.
Who was President Obama?
He signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to make it official.
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What are speech bubbles?
The marches that crossed this bridge were a powerful symbol for the struggle of racial equality.
What was the Pettus Bridge?
Malcolm X and John Lewis met here for the first time.
Where is Africa?
These three missing civil rights workers were found dead.
Who are Mickey Schwerner, Andy Goodman, and James Chaney.
This activist disagreed on the effectiveness of non-violent resistance.
Who was Malcolm X?
The time and place of where the story takes place is told through visuals and text.
What is the setting?
John Lewis considered this as the turning point of the movement because it changed their focus from political action to direct action.
What was the 1964 Democratic Convention?
These laws mandated segregation in the South.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
This sharecropper testified about the violence that was endured to register to vote.
Who was Fannie Lou Hamer?
This sheriff of Dallas County was mean, violent, and easily provoked.
Who was Jim Clark?
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What is a bleed?
These participants went to the Dallas County Courthouse to demand voting rights, risking their jobs and pensions for this march.
What was the Selma Teacher's March?
The mock election by the Mississippi Summer Project.
What was the Freedom Vote?
This actor and activist invited a delegation from SNCC to accompany him on a three-week trip to Africa to speak to young people and share ideas about what they were doing in the American South.
Who is Harry Belafonte?
He wore overalls to show solidarity with the farmers.
Who was Bob Moses?
The lines, squiggles, and symbols that appear around characters, or objects to show emotions, sensations or movement.
What is emanata?
The 1963 march, where an estimated 250,000 people gathered to demand an end to racial segregation, fair wages, voting rights, and other civil and economic liberties, went from the U.S. Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial.
What was the March on Washington?
The first person killed in the Selma to Montgomery marches, with his death becoming a major catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Jimmie Lee Jackson?
He was brutally murdered for talking to a white woman. His murder inspired thousands to join the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?