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Trouble. >> lewis first came up with the phrase as chide in pike county al. >> i didn't like administration. i didn't like the science that said white waiting. colored waiting. white men. considered 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 jr. on the radio. >> as long as ...

Civil rights of the poor, the dispossessed people of color. i was born in rural alabama. not very far from where senator sessions was raised. there was no way to escape or deny the choke hold of discrimination and racial hate that surrounded us. i saw the signs that said white waiting, colored waiting. i saw the signs that said white men, colored men, white women, colored women. i tasted the bitter fruits of segregation and racial discrimination. segregation was the law of the land that ordered our society in the deep south. any black person who did not cross the street when a white person was...

I was born in rural alabama, not very far from where senator sessions was raised. there was no way to escape or deny the chokehold of discrimination and racial hate that surrounded us. i saw the signs that said "white waiting, colored waiting," i saw "white men, colored men, white women, colored women" signs. i tasted the bitter fruits of segregation and racial discrimination. segregation was the law of the land that ordered our society and the deep south. any black person who did not cross the street when a white person was walking down the same sidewalk, who did not move to the back of the b...

Dispossessed, people of color. i was born in rural alabama, not very far from where senator sessions was raised. there was no way to escape or deny the chokehold of discrimination and racial hate that surrounded us. i saw the signs that said "white waiting, colored waiting." i saw the signs that said white men, colored men, white women, colored women. i tasted the bitter fruits of segregation and racial discrimination. segregation was the law of the land, the order of society in the deep south. any black person who did not cross the street when a white person was walking down the same sidewalk...

When i was beaten on that bridge by a state trooper, i thought i was going to die. i thought i saw death. but i was prepared. and i was ready to do all i could to end segregation and racial discrimination. and gain the right for all of us citizen to participate in the democratic process. >> i've heard you say that you hope that this next generation will be inspired to get in trouble, good and necessary trouble. explain what you mean by that? >> my mother and my father, and especially my mother told me over and over again, whenever i asked about the signs that i saw growing up, saying white wai...