led the Montgomery Improvement Association in a boycott of the city’s transit service, and, by court order, the University of Alabama admitted the first black student in its 125-year history. In the months following Till’s death, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, Martin Luther King Jr. “I was fifteen, black, at the edge of my own manhood, just like him,” Lewis wrote about Till in his 1998 memoir Walking With the Wind. The now Georgia congressman and longtime civil rights activist was a year older than Till when news of his murder made its way to nearby Troy, Alabama, where Lewis was born and raised. When the severely beaten body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was pulled from Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River in 1955, word didn’t have to travel far in order to reach John Lewis. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Line-Up Announced > Close
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