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We join the nation in mourning the death of Congressman John Lewis, a lifelong advocate for equality and justice.

Lewis joined the Civil Rights Movement in 1958 while attending seminary in Nashville.
Congressman Lewis remained a leader in the fight for equality and justice throughout his life. This 1963 poster for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee features a Danny Lyon photograph of Lewis and other leaders praying while protesting racial segregation. Three people kneel in prayer. The man on the left is John Le
Congressman John Lewis made a lasting impact on human rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and immigration rights in the United States and abroad.
For John Lewis, activism for social change was a communal activity. He believed that people coming together to mentor, protest, and learn could create a society that they wanted to live in. americanhistory.si.edu/blog/john-lewis
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Reverend C. T. Vivian embodied the values that made the Black Freedom Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s revolutionary and inspiring: courage, commitment, sacrifice, and strategy. C.T. Vivian approaches the lectern in a church. Martin Luthe
Rev. Vivian first became involved in the movement through sit ins. He participated in a successful sit-in in Peoria, IL in 1947. As a ministry student in Nashville when he helped organize a three-month sit in campaign of Nashville’s lunch counters.
Vivian continued to be a force in the Civil Rights Movement, advising Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., overseeing Southern Christian Leadership Conference chapters, undergoing arrest and imprisonment as a Freedom Rider, organizing protests and voter registration drives, and more. A button that reads "I am a registered voter are you?&qCT Vivian's mugshot.
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76 years ago today, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, an all African American unit, were part of the first waves of soldiers on Omaha and Utah beaches on D-Day. They brought barrage balloons ashore to help protect the soldiers that would follow. s.si.edu/377kGOJ Barrage balloons protect dozens of ships on the Normandy beaches as they offload the men, material, and munitions needed to expand the beachheadFrom left to right, PFC Arko Shaw, PFC Alvin Smith, Cpl. Jessie Sumlin, and Pvt. James Shrapshire hauling a barrage balloon through a partly cleared mine field to a new site in France, 22 August 1944.
The photograph to the left shows the barrage balloons flying above the beaches of Normandy, protecting those below.

The photograph to the right shows members of the 320th pulling a barrage balloon through a partly cleared mine field to a new site in France, 22 August 1944.
On June 6, 1944, D-Day, thousands of Allied naval vessels and planes streamed toward Nazi-occupied France to break through Hitler's coastal defenses. Robert Capa captured this image of American troops landing in Normandy. More about D-Day: americanhistory.si.edu/blog/dday Soldiers head towards the shores of Normandy, trudging through water.
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2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment's ratification. This #WomensHistoryMonth, you'll probably see a sentence like this:

"The 19th Amendment gave U.S. women the right to vote."

However, that sentence erases a lot of women from the history books. A thread:⬇️
The 19th Amendment was the culmination of generations of women advocating for their political rights.

Ratifying the 19th Amendment was neither the beginning nor the end of women's fight for the vote, which stretched back to the American Revolution.
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