Cause Magazine Lewis, the son of sharecroppers survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama. He has said that Rev. Martin Luther King inspired his activism. Angered by the unfairness of the Jim Crow South, Lewis launched what he called "good trouble" with organized protests and sit-ins. In the early 1960s, he was a Freedom Rider, challenging segregation at interstate bus terminals across the South and in the nation's capital. At the age of 23, Lewis was a keynote speaker at the historic 1963 March on Washington. His passionate oratory skills were backed by a long record of action that included, by his count, more than 40 arrests while demonstrating against racial and social injustice. He recently won a National Book Award for his collaboration on a series of inspiring graphic novels depicting his lifelong struggle in the civil rights movement.
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