Room 210 Civil Rights was designed to help students in Randy Turner's eighth grade communication arts at East Middle School in Joplin, MO, with their third quarter research project on the American civil rights movement. The site contains news and articles on civil rights. Though Mr. Turner no longer teaches in the Joplin School District, this site will remain online and continue to be updated to serve those who are researching the civil rights movement.
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Suffering from pancreatic cancer, civil rights icon John Lewis returns to Edmund Pettus Bridge
Despite suffering from Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, returned to Selma, Alabama to observe the 55th anniversary of the voting rights march that resulted in his being brutally beaten.
"I thought I was going to die on this bridge" Lewis said. "But somehow, some way, God Almighty kept me here.
"We cannot give up now. We cannot give in. We must keep the faith. Keep our eyes on the prize and vote like we've never ever voted before."
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