Carry On Reflections For A New Generation – John Lewis

Board of Education. I immediately believed that the next school year would go even better. For starters, it wouldn’t be a segregated school. And I also had hopes that I wouldn’t have to ride in a broken-down bus or use old books. Every day that I got on the bus, I kept expecting white children to join us. But it didn’t happen. I realized that there was a disconnect between what I had heard on the radio and what was happening in my community. But I didn’t grow angry or have despair.

I didn’t complain about my situation. I kept the faith and had patience that things would work out. If change wasn’t going to happen to me and my community, I would respond to the call and help bring about the change. When I was sixteen, I went to get my driver’s license. I was scared, so I didn’t do a very good job, and after the test the white official at the desk yelled, for everyone to hear, “Boy, don’t you ever come here again unless you know how to drive.”

And I never went back. I didn’t get my driver’s license until I was forty-two. I was always with people, going from and to events, so I never had to be the driver. But I eventually got around to it. You don’t have to do everything in a day. Take your time.

Wait. Have patience. I had to learn to have patience. I didn’t when I was a young man. You can go down every road in other ways. I did. 1kitap1.com/en On Fear Be unafraid. Fear is a powerful and dangerous emotion. When I came of age, there was a real sense of fear among Black people.

You could feel it just talking to people in the South. A Black person could get whisked away and never heard from again—or beaten in broad daylight. There were just too many stories like those of Emmett Till. While the overall situation has gotten better, we have so much further to go.

These days there is an epidemic of police violence and brutality toward people of color. Black people are naturally fearful of what these government forces will do to them. Why should young Black people be guided by fear while they are making their way in the world, and why should parents have to bear the burden of fear of their children going out into the world? In the movement, we faced our fears.

We would march and protest in broad daylight, with angry mobs and state troopers close by. But we kept on pushing and surviving. We got more exposure and experience. We learned about the people and ideas that we feared. And we realized that even if we were beaten or bruised, only we ourselves could determine whether we would be victims and suffer. That which we feared had no power over us, no hold whatsoever.

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ISBNs: 978-1-5387-0712-8 (hardcover), 978-1-5387-0714-2 (ebook) E3-20210512-DA-NF-ORI 1kitap1.com/en Table of Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Foreword Editor’s Note On Good Days On Mentors On Heroes On Good Trouble On Activism On Justice On Courage On Character On Humility On Conscience On Hope On Spirituality On Faith On Patience On Fear On Forgiveness On Happiness On Friendship On Love On Marriage On Learning On Art On Books On Sports On Dress On Money On Immigration On Orientation On the Environment On COVID-19 On Health Care On Vision On Communication On Voting On Death On Leaving a Legacy On the Future Afterword Discover More John Lewis Chronology About the Author 1kitap1.com/en Explore book giveaways, sneak peeks, deals, and more.

Tap here to learn more. 1kitap1.com/en Foreword by Ambassador Andrew Young One of the reasons I came back to the South from New York, where I was working for the National Council of Churches, was the Nashville sit-in, in 1960. And there was John Lewis, leading it. He was persuasive and powerful even back then. There was a certain power in his humility that you were not prepared for. He just had such a sweet spirit.

It was magnetic. I remember in 1960 being on the Fisk University campus, and there was this one group of about ten students led by John Lewis, and they were preparing to leave the campus. I asked a fellow student, “Where are they going?” And he responded, “That’s John Lewis, and he’s going to test one of the last restaurants that we have not been able to desegregate.”

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