May you rest in peace, Sir.

John Roberts Lewis

"I heard of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr and a few years later I met her in 1957, and Dr King in 1958.

"Meeting them, getting involved in the civil rights movement inspired me to find a way to 'get in the way', what we call today 'good trouble, necessary trouble'.

"We would talk about the way of peace and non-violence. White and black students sitting at a lunch counter together and getting arrested.

"Sometimes we would be beaten, people would spit on us."

Once he went to jail with 88 other people. It was his first time being arrested.

"Not for fighting or staying out of school, but trying to change America. The longest time I stayed in jail was 40 days," Mr Lewis said.