John Lewis was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis helped organize sit-ins, and he also participated in the Freedom Rides. Lewis played a key role in the 1963 March on Washington and was one of the “Big Six” leaders of the movement. In 1965 he led a march in Selma, Alabama, that was met with police violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, an event known as “Bloody Sunday.” This event helped lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year.
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