This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., participates in a ceremony on June 16, 2010 to unveil two plaques recognizing the contributions of enslaved African Americans in the construction of the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lewis was remembered at a hometown service for carrying the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress.
At the Troy University service, his brothers and sisters recalled Lewis — who was called Robert at home — as a boy who practiced preaching and singing gospel songs and was scared of thunder. And as a young man who left with a mind to change the world. Those cotton fields were in then-segregated Pike County, where Lewis as a child winced at the signs designating “whites only” locations.
Lewis was one of 10 children born into a sharecropping family. His parents saved enough money to buy their own farm where the Lewis children worked the fields and tended the animals. A young Lewis was less fond of field work — often grousing about the grueling task — but eagerly took on the job of tending the chickens while practicing preaching.
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