John Lewis once voiced ¨Sometimes I hear people say nothing has changed, come and walk in my shoes¨ The Civil Rights Movement all started because African Americans wanted the same equal rights as everyone else. They were getting impatient as well, and they wanted their rights now! The African Americans wanted equal jobs and rights. The African Americans were seen as ¨different¨ to the whites just because they had different skin color. They were known as ¨colored¨. There were African Americans who helped form this nation into an equal nation. I'm going to be talking about three of them. Their names are Ida B Wells, John Lewis, and Medgar Evers. Ida B Wells was born on July 16, 1862. When she heard that the lynching increased on African Americans she was (Sv)furious. So she made an anti-lynching campaign. A few days later she found out that one of her friends was lynched and killed. She then wrote about decrying the lynching of her friends and other fellow African Americans. The first editorial (7)pushed the city …show more content…
When he was younger he got arrested three times while he was in non-violent protests. His mother was angry. John participated in free riders of 1961. This was to protest the segregated bus terminals in the south. He also helped plan the march from Selma to Montgomery. While they were marching ,the protesters and John Lewis got stopped by state troopers right in front of the bridge. The state troopers warned them to turn around but the protesters didn't back down. They didn't mean any harm. The state troopers started lunging at John Lewis and his group. John thought he was going to die. Sadly, he suffered a fractured skull and could've died. Mr. Lewis and others called it ¨Bloody Sunday¨. But it sped up the beginning of the 1965 voting rights. He got in the way and got in trouble but it was necessary trouble. My final hero did die in his pursuit of equal