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>> when king's group organized a protest march from selma to montgomery in march 1965, sncc refused to join. but john lewis chose to march anyway at the front of the line. >> we're marching today to dramatize to the nation and hundreds of thousands of negro citizens of alabama denied the right to vote. >> his knapsack had an apple and toothbrush. he was ready to go to jail as he had so often before but he was also prepared for worse. >> john just was always available to risk death, and i think it was not that he wanted to die, it was that the basis of his leadership was showing a fearlessness ...

They were fearless. >> when king's group organized a protest march from selma to montgomery in march 1965, sncc refused to join. but john lewis chose to march anyway at the front of the line. >> we're marching today to dramatize to the nation and hundreds of thousands of negro citizens of alabama denied the right to vote. >> his nknapsack had an apple ad toothbrush. he was ready to go to jail as he had so often before but he was also prepared for worse. >> he was always available to reach death and i don't think it was he wanted to die. it was the basis of his leadership was showing a fearless...

>> 14 months after the selma march, a more militant faction ousted lewis as chairman and the group soon began calling for very different tactics. >> violence is a part of america's culture. it is as american as cherry pie. >> the new rhetoric went against everything in which lewis believed. >> we had been preaching a philosophy and the discipline of nonviolence, preaching the sense of dealing what we called the beloved community, that we were one people, that we're one family. >> after 40 arrests and countless beats in the name of the civil rights movement, john lewis left the group he helped ...