Umjetnik: Benny Andrews
Datum: 2005
Muzej: National Center for Civil and Human Rights (Atlanta, United States)
Tehnika: Mixed Media
His activist career began as a Religion and Philosophy student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he studied the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolence under the mentorship of Reverend James Lawson and participated in lunch counter sit-ins. He was also one of the original Freedom Riders, a multiracial group of civil rights activists taking interstate bus trips through the South in 1961 to test Supreme Court decisions that segregation on interstate buses (Morgan v. Virginia, 1946) and in interstate bus terminal stations (Boynton v. Virginia, 1960) were unconstitutional. The young activists attempted to integrate restrooms, waiting rooms, and lunch counters at terminals and were greeted by mobs, with John Lewis violently attacked at Rock Hill, South Carolina and Montgomery, Alabama Greyhound bus terminals.In 1963, as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and one of The Big Six, he was the youngest speaker at the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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