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Why is it important for high school students to learn about the civil rights movement?

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John Lewis

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May 26, 2012

Videos from John Lewis

What was it like to participate in the Freedom Rides?
How and why did you first get involved in the civil rights movement?
What was your life like as a young child?
Why is it important for high school students to learn about the civil rights movement?
What did the civil rights movement accomplish?
How did you decide to go into politics?
What was the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project?
Why did you criticize the proposed civil rights legislation at the March on Washington?
What role did nonviolence play in the movement?
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
What was it like growing up in Alabama under Jim Crow?
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