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During the Civil Rights movement, Lewis served as president of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, demonstrated alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and is the only surviving speaker from the 1965 March on Washington...
With that belief, Bond reached back to 1965, when, as an activist with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he first began to struggle for "the just spoils of a virtuous and victorious war [the Civil Rights movement]", majority black voting districts and affirmative action...
...reflection, his autobiography, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Simon & Schuster; 496 pages; $26), co-authored with Michael D'Orso, at times degenerates into a travelogue of movement battlefields. But it also provides a stirring portrait of the power of moral consistency and courage. Lewis and SNCC colleagues like Diane Nash and Robert Moses were willing to put their lives and bodies on the line at a time when both white political leaders like John Kennedy and established civil rights groups like the N.A.A.C.P. urged caution and so-called moderation. The young activists were simply unwilling...
Jack Chatfield, who worked for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, said the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling initiated the civil rights movement...
...said that he was a field worker in theSouthwest Georgia Project of the SNCC for the nextseveral years