Confrontation 1


“In January 1965 John went to Selma, Alabama. More than fifteen thousand black adults were eligible to vote in the county where Selma was located, but only about three hundred were registered. John & other SNCC workers began leading groups of people to the city courthouse in Selma to register to vote. Each time a group arrived, the clerk hung up a sign that read: OUT TO LUNCH. It didn’t matter what time of the day they arrived. The sign always went up.”

Quote credited to: “John Lewis In The Lead; A Story of the Civil Rights Movement” by: Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson