![]() ![]() The series, first released in 2013, covers virtually every major civil rights moment of the 1950s and 1960s, from Rosa Parks’ arrest on a Montgomery city bus to the 1965 Bloody Sunday attack by police and deputized white civilians on protesters in Selma. Book three picks up with the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham in 1963, and ends with the 1965 signing of the Civil Rights Act by President Lyndon Johnson. Many of those arrests are depicted in the more than 500 pages of illustrated civil rights history covered in March, which released its final instalment earlier this month. ![]() Lewis added with pride: “I’ll probably get arrested again.” The 75-year-old has been arrested more than 40 times in his life, and five times since he was elected to Congress nearly 30 years ago. That time, the protest ended without confrontation. Most recently, Lewis got in the way during a June sit-in to protest congressional inaction on gun control after the mass shooting that left 49 dead in an Orlando nightclub. “I tell people all the time if you see something that is not fair, not right, and not just, then you have a moral obligation to do something about it – to get in the way, to get in trouble.” I still consider myself an activist,” he says. ![]()
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