I call it necessary of trouble and every so often when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just,

you have to say no no.

Hi I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to Voices of the Movement, a series from my podcast,

K-P-Up, sharing stories of some of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and their lessons

on where we go from here.

If you've ever heard Congressman John Lewis speak,

you may have heard him say this phrase about good trouble,

necessary trouble, when talking about the famous march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama, a march

that turned violent and became forever known as Bloody Sunday.

In order to understand Bloody Sunday, you have to know how Lewis and 600 other

other marchers got to the Edmund Pettis Bridge in the first place and why.

Let me just tell the story.

It's been bothering me.

You may remember Andrew Young from the first episode of this series.

He was the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. chief strategist at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

On the first night of the Sunnayland Civil Rights Retreat, I happened to have my phone recording

while people were doing introductions, and Young got to telling this remarkable story about one day in 1964.

Coming back from Martin's Nobel Prize troop,

he stopped off in Washington to see President Johnson.

King and Young were set to meet the President to talk about passing a Voting Rights Act.

And so we went in and made the case for voting rights.

And President Johnson said that he agreed with everything

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