I'm Ashley C. Ford, and this is Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice.

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My mother, my father, my grandparents and great-grandparents told me, don't get in trouble.

Don't get in the way.

But the action of Rosa Parks, the action and words and the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rina back Gundy and Thoreau inspired me to find a way to get in the way to get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble.

So it is my hope that when young children pick up this book, it will inspire another generation to find a way to get in the way.

Yeah. a way to get in a way. John Lewis was a man who knew exactly how to get into good trouble. He was one of the big six leaders who organized the march on Washington in 1963.

He was just 23 years old.

And two years after, he led a peaceful march that attempted to go from Selma to Montgomery.

It ended with marchers being brutally beaten by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

If you know anything about John Lewis and his legacy, even if the details of his decades-long

leadership for Georgia have slipped by, you probably know that phrase, good trouble.

Sit-ins, marches, speaking out. At the anniversary of that Bloody Sunday 50 years later,

John Lewis stood on that very same bridge and said,

we kept believing that the truth we stood for would have the final say.

John Lewis spent the latter part of his career working inside the system,

more than 30 years as a Georgia congressman. But towards the end, the man's public image was taking

a hit. He hadn't supported President Obama when he initially was running, and he got a lot

of pushback for that.

There were alleged improprieties involving his staff and finances. He was being

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