John Lewis
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Podcast: Oprah’s Master Class: The Podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?) Episode: John Lewis Pub date: 2019-01-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Before he became a U.S. congressman, John Lewis was one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement. John reflects on his life of activism, his friendship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and offers wisdom for the ongoing fight for justice and equality. By the time he was 18, John was participating in lunch-counter sit-ins to protest segregation. Eventually, John rode with the brave Freedom Riders on buses through the deep South, spoke at the famous March on Washington, led the historic Selma to Montgomery march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and was in the room when President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Today, John is a congressman from Georgia who continues his fight for civil rights, most recently leading sit-ins on the House of Representatives floor in favor of immigration reform and gun control. John says he still believes in non-violence, and says it is his obligation to pass on this tradition to a new generation of young activists, so that we may never go backward and repeat the mistakes of the past. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Oprah, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Podcast: Oprah’s Master Class: The Podcast Episode: John Lewis Pub date: 2019-01-17 Details: https://www.listennotes.com/e/9e700a50706f4aa0a27eec2f026d5331/ The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Oprah, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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