Word: movements
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Lewis' involvement in the Civil Rights movement began in 1958, when he was attending college in Nashville. A student of the non-violent philosophy of Mohandas K. Gandhi and his idol King, Lewis helped start a sit-in campaign to protest segregated restaurant counters that would spread across the entire South...
Lewis also spoke about his experiences as a Freedom Rider, a movement in which he and his colleagues set out to test the ban on segregated public transportation throughout the South...
Perhaps Lewis summed up his involvement in theCivil Rights movement best when he said, "Equalityis an ongoing struggle. It's not one day, not onemonth, but a lifetime...
...best speeches I've ever heard,"Nnamdi D. Okike '02 said. "It was an amazinghistory of the movement and of his life...
Stephen A. Jacob, a first-year student at KSG,echoed Okike's reaction. "He encapsulated thefeeling of the Civil Rights movement, which he wassuch an integral part of. It's so important to beat this sort of event...