Civil Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis on Struggle to Win, and Now Protect, Voting Rights in U.S. from information about dr luther king Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 7 min 84 sec
✓ Published: 10-Jul-2012

Description:
DemocracyNow.org - We spend the hour looking at the bloody struggle to obtain — and protect — voting rights in the U.S. with the civil rights icon, now 13-term Georgia Congressmember, John Lewis. During the 1960s, Rep. Lewis was arrested more than 40 times and beaten almost to death as he served as chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, marched side-by-side with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., helped organize the Freedom Rides, campaigned for Robert Kennedy’s presidential bid,