'John Lewis: Good Trouble' Director on How the Film's Message Can Inspire Activists Today (Exclusive)
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etonline.comincreasingly popular petition seeking to have the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, renamed after Rep. John Lewis, who marched across it more than 50 years ago in a landmark moment for the civil rights movement.It would be a fitting testament to the man's legacy, which began before that Bloody Sunday on the bridge, marching alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and continues to this today through his work in Congress.
Those early days of activism were documented in Ava DuVernay's drama , in which Lewis was played by Stephan James. Now a documentary,, fills in the rest of his story.Director Dawn Porter remembers first learning about Lewis' social activism while studying the civil rights movement in high school.
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