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The civil rights leader John Lewis, known at the ‘conscience of America’ has died 
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Kent College History's insight:
In the spring of 1961, black and white civil rights activists rode buses to protest the segregationist policies of the Deep South (Marian Holmes, Brian Wolly, Photos courtesy of Corbis, Getty Images and Library of Congress, Audio clips courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways).
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Kent College History's insight:
The designation of bus station in Anniston, Ala as a national monument, and the rhetoric between Rep. John Lewis and President-elect Donald Trump, has thrown into the current discourse on race a new reminder of the bloody struggles for equality, as the nation celebrates the birthday of Martin Luther King on the eve of Trump’s swearing-in.
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'The civil rights leader John Lewis, known at the ‘conscience of America’, has died. Born the son of sharecroppers in Alabama on 21 February 1940, he attended segregated public schools and, inspired by the words of Martin Luther King Jr, became active in the civil rights movement. From university onwards he organised sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, took part in the Freedom Rides, was chair of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and was a key speaker at the historic March on Washington in 1963. He led one of the pivotal moments in the civil rights movement, a march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama that was brutally attacked by state troopers.'