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The Life, Legacy, and Lessons of a Civil Rights Giant "Justice is something every generation has to strive for." A trailblazer in the civil rights movement, John M. Perkins led voter registration efforts in 1964, worked for school desegregation in 1967, and was jailed and tortured in 1970. He is no less zealous today as he sees a new generation of freedom fighters battling the same issues...

do just enough to get by without repentance. This tension became quite apparent in regard to the riots that took place in Ferguson, Missouri, after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man. The white community sees the reaction of the black community and thinks it is too strong, too violent, and too much. But we in the black community feel we have been oppressed too long and that the changes boasted are, in reality, a far cry from the rhetoric and the legislation. So, of course,