John Lewis(1940-2020)

One of the thirteen original freedom riders, and was on board the bus the night the bus was firebombed on May 14, 1961 in Anniston, Alabama, USA. Lewis and the other Freedom Riders were able to get off the bus before the fire consumed the bus interior, only to be beaten and clubbed by the waiting white mob.

[after 'The March on Washington', August 28, 1963] After Dr. King had spoken, we went back down to the White House. President Kennedy invited us back down, and he stood in the door of the Oval Office and greeted each one of us. He was like a proud beaming father that everything had gone so well. He said to each one of us as he shook our hand, You did a good job, you did a good job. And when he got to Dr. King, he said, 'And you had a dream'.