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...struggle for voting rights came to a headearly in 1965, in Selma, Ala., in an event thatcame to be known as "Bloody Sunday...
Lewis helped organize an "orderly, silent,peaceful" march from Selma to Montgomery by 600people, primarily elderly men and women, he said...
...morning in 1995 when the President spoke to a group of Iowa farmers. "I am the only President who knew something about agriculture when I got there," he said, briefly forgetting his many predecessors--beginning with George Washington--who actually grew crops. A few months later he was in Selma, Calif., the "raisin capital of the world." What a coincidence! "I have probably consumed," the President told a group of schoolkids, "more raisins than any President who ever held this office." He was forgetting, perhaps, William Howard Taft, who ate more of everything than anybody else...
...family's sharecropper farm in Alabama to the front lines of the battle for racial justice during the 1960s; he never flinched as he suffered arrests and beatings during the lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville, Tenn., the Freedom Rides and the brutal police assault on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Ala., that paved the way to the movement's greatest triumph, the Voting Rights...
...that moment, rejoicing on the steps of the federal courthouse in Selma, Alabama, I realized how central Derrick Bell's advice to me had been four years earlier to go south, to mix it up, to become a civil rights advocate, not just a civil rights technician, "she read from her book...