John Lewis Anticipation Guide

1. Upon his death, both Democrats and Republicans praised John Lewis for his work for civil rights.

• True

• False

2. John Lewis was a US Congressman representing his birthplace in Alabama.

• True

• False

3. Lewis died of heart disease on July 17.

• True

• False

4. At age 25, John Lewis led 600 people on a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

• True

• False

5. During a protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965, the police attacked the marchers and John Lewis’s skull was fractured.

• True

• False

6. Due to the public’s reaction to the police violence, President Lyndon Johnson urged the Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act.

• True

• False

7. At age 23, John Lewis spoke at the March on Washington in 1963, just before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech that day.

• True

• False

8. John Lewis received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama.

• True

• False

9. The Supreme Court recently struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.

• True

• False

10. Lewis was arrested 40 times in the 1960s while protesting for civil rights.

• True

• False