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Joins the Civil Rights movement
Joined becasue all of his childhood life he experienced segregation and had a thought that everyone should be treated the same. I have a connection to this because i saw my cousin play basketball when he was younger and no one would treat him the same as others that played too (because he was short). -
Freedom Riders
Participated in the Freedom Riders movement -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Beacame Chairman and organized parts of the March On Washington -
March On Washinton
Youngest Speaker their and he had one of the most moving speeches there -
Theological Seminary
Organized sit ins and was then arrested and beaten -
Marching
Led a march that stared in Selma, Alabama and was supposed to go to Birmingham, Alabama but was stopped by an attack on them right after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge -
Voter Education product
He became the director and chief of the VEP(Voter Education Product) -
Bloody Sunday
Led Bloody Sunday during the evening they went through a town in big crowds and protested the segregation -
Congressman
Elected to cogress because of what he did to help the community in the past. -
Today's acomplishment
He was awarded by Barack Obama and award he still today serves as a representative for Georgias 5th district. All these events shaped the belief that everyone should be treated equal they shaped him because of what he had to go through just to get everyone unsegregated.
