Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190121:05:03:00
>> lewis first came up with the phrase as a child in pike county, alabama. >> i didn't like segregation and racial discrimination. i didn't like the signs that said "white waiting," "colored waiti waiting", "white men," colored men." i would come home and ask my mother, my father, my grandparents why? they would say that's the way it is, boy. don't get in the way. don't get into trouble. >> born into sharecroppers. he was one of the 10 siblings growing up in the fields of cotton country. as a teenager he was inspired by the montgomery bus boycott and the sermons of the dr. martin luther king j...
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