Risking their lives for, and what they ultimately gave their lives for specifically was voting rights in messy. they were registering people to vote, registering african-americans to vote as part of an effort called the mississippi freedom summer. and they died for it. the man who coordinated mississippi freedom summer for the student nonviolent coordinating committee was john lewis. in march 1965, the year after freedom summer, it was john lewis and hosea williams who led a group of 600 protesters on a march that started in selma, alabama. we also as americans remember forever selma. but what...