Congressman and civil-rights icon John Lewis wants city public school students to make “good trouble.”
The former head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, who was one of the original Freedom Riders, at the New York Historical Society Dec. 2 recalled the first time he saw signs designating water fountains and restrooms for white people only during a trip to Montgomery, AL, about 10 miles from his hometown of Troy.
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