John Lewis and Guy Carawan from Lecture series: A Decade of Civil Rights History: 1960-1970: The Movement as Viewed by Participants, Loop College, Chicago

Reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette copy. Transcript of Lewis' speech is included. Lewis relates his early years growing up in Troy, Alabama; his feelings about the Montgomery bus boycott; attending college at American Baptist Seminary; his experience at Highlander; working in the civil rights struggle with Reverends C.P. Vivian, James Lawson, Kelly Miller Smith and Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr., the NAACP, Congress for Racial Equality (CORE); attending workshops for non-violence; his participation in Nashville department store lunch counter sit-ins in 1959, the Freedom Rides of the early 1960s; confrontation with Birmingham police and Bull Conner in 1961; experience in Mississippi and the Hinds County jail; working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); the March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama for voters rights; becoming a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War; and a summary of the importance for the civil rights movement. Carawan's speech is barely audible due to muffled recording and traffic noise in the background. Includes the performance of freedom songs; We Shall Over Come, and Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life. Carawan also mentions Johns Island and Moving Star Hall.