John Lewis | A Tribute

Good Trouble Lives On

Growing up in Rural Alabama in the Jim Crow Era

Seeds of John Lewis’s activism can be traced back to his childhood in Pike County, Alabama, near the town of Troy. Lewis was born on February 21,1940, the third of 10 children. He grew up on a cotton farm where his parents and, earlier, his grandparents worked long hours for little pay as sharecroppers - in…