King offered to help him sue the school, but Lewis’s parents were unwilling to take the risk. He tries to transfer to Troy state, which rejected him since it was attended by white people only. I became restless” (Lewis & Aydin, 2016, p. He worries that he is not doing enough to support social justice movements by saying, “I started to feel guilty for not doing more. John goes to a college for ministers in Nashville after high school. He hears Martin Luther King on the radio talking about desegregation and supporting Rosa park in her case, which he admired.Īt fifteen years, Lewis delivers his first sermon making his mark as a leader. When school started that fall, John was disappointed since neither his parents nor church leaders were interested in pursuing desegregation (Lewis & Aydin, 2016). On both sides,” after seeing what equality looks like in Buffalo, Newyork (Lewis & Aydin, 2016, p. This is demonstrated when he said, “I couldn’t believe … they had white people living next door to them. Lewis enjoyed the trip and returned home with a completely different view of the world. Lewis remembers 1951 when he traveled north with his uncle Otis to visit some relatives. As a kid, after being introduced to the Bible, he could practice his sermons on the chicken, baptize them and hold proper funeral services when they died of natural causes. He had a connection with chickens and treated them as his friends. Lewis recalls his childhood on a farm in Alabama. Lewis has several pictures of the chicken in his office, and he decides to ask why. In his office, Lewis greets a few visitors, a woman and her two young sons, who were not expecting to see Mr. Congressman John Lewis wakes up early, gets dressed, and prepares for President Barack Obama’s inauguration (Lewis & Aydin, 2016).

The subsequent narrative then flashes forward to January 20, 2009, in Washington DC, the inauguration of the new president.

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