"Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved."
- John LewisDuring the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, John Lewis, a well-known politician and civil rights leader in American history, was instrumental in the struggle against racial discrimination and segregation. At the age of 17, when many young people are still figuring out who they are in the world, h…