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Students Get Civil Rights Education From A Legend

For the third year, Congressman John Lewis has hosted the junior class in his Capitol Hill office for a first hand account of the Civil Rights Movement. The congressman is known as one of the Big Six leaders of the movement because of his leadership as a young man of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. (The others were Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, A. Phillip Randolph, Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins). In August 1963, at the age of 23, he was an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington. In his office, the students gathered around the congressman to hear the inspirational story of his childhood in segregated Alabama and his climb from there to his current position as a member of the United States Congress.
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