Dear John Lewis, 

The events in the ’60s are something I still can’t properly wrap my head around. I can’t imagine how hard and how brave everyone had to be to stand up for their rights. The way that voting offices would give literacy tests to only black applicants, or how they’d get targeted if they were able to successfully register to vote. How officers would find a reason to arrest any of the protestors and send them straight to jail was very shocking. Right after that, there was a protest planned called the ‘Freedom Vote’, with Harvard University student, Bob Moses. During that protest, President Kennedy had been shot and assassinated, and everyone had to continue with the protests that’d been planned, everyone had to keep pushing forward. What really created further tension, was when the three young voters were presumed to be missing; but in reality, everyone had known deep down what had happened to them. This portion of your book focused mainly on the darker and more depressing moments.  I was very shocked when I saw how brutal someone’s experience was to register to vote, compared to my experience where I could easily register online. Also, the feeling of dread and surprise when I saw what happened to those young voters, I had a feeling of what had happened but was still stunned when their bodies were found. I wondered why you put in the portion of the party and that one moment where everyone was happy, was it because you wanted to show how young you all were still? A solution I would like to propose would be not to give up, and to continue to fight for what you believe is right.

                                                                                                         Sincerely,

                                                                                                                          Carmen Guzman