WorksheetsJohn Lewis Anticipation Guide
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
1. Upon his death, both Democrats and Republicans praised John Lewis for his work for civil rights.
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2. John Lewis was a US Congressman representing his birthplace in Alabama.
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3. Lewis died of heart disease on July 17.
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4. At age 25, John Lewis led 600 people on a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
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5. During a protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965, the police attacked the marchers and John Lewis’s skull was fractured.
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6. Due to the public’s reaction to the police violence, President Lyndon Johnson urged the Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act.
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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.
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8. John Lewis received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama.
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9. The Supreme Court recently struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.
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10. Lewis was arrested 40 times in the 1960s while protesting for civil rights.
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