国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 2月22日 10時18分

In this poster, future Congressman John Lewis (left) can be seen praying with local activists who were protesting racial segregation of public facilities in Cairo, Illinois. The original photograph was taken by Danny Lyon in 1962. It was later adapted by by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) into this poster.

John Lewis was born today in 1940. Lewis's career as a political and civil rights leader was shaped by his experiences growing up in rural Alabama in the 1940s and 1950s. As our curator writes, Lewis's earliest "mentors and protectors" were his "family, teachers, and the Black church. . .they nourished his sense of self while he grew up in a nation that systematically denigrated and oppressed African Americans. In a 1979 interview, Lewis recalled listening to the experiences of his 'father, and my uncle, and my grandfather, and great grandfathers' about their daily encounters with racial discrimination and white supremacy. He was a teenager when Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi, and recalled in his autobiography that he thought, 'That could have been me, beaten, tortured, dead, at the bottom of a river.'" Lewis was also inspired by Montgomery, Alabama's Black community and its battle against racial segregation on the city’s buses. He later told an interviewer that he "'grew up with a feeling that I had to find a way to oppose this system of segregation, racial discrimination.'"

Follow the link in our bio to learn more about Lewis's lifetime of activism and the lasting impact his work had on human rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and immigration rights in the United States and abroad.

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