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Rights Era: Alabama Farm and Rights Activists

rights era: A son of Alabama sharecroppers, the young Lewis first preached moral righteousness to his family's chickens, according to CTV. His place in the vanguard of the 1960s campaign for Black equality had its roots in that hardscrabble Alabama farm and all those clucks. But at the very beginning -- when he was just a kid wanting to be a minister someday -- his audience didn't care much for what he had to say. Lewis, who died Friday at age 80, was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists who organized the 1963 March on Washington, and spoke shortly before the group's leader, Rev. If that speech marked a turning point in the civil rights era -- or at least the most famous moment -- the struggle was far from over. Martin Luther King Jr., gave his I Have a Dream speech to a vast sea of people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.