U.S. Congressman John Lewis urged people to get into what he called “good trouble, necessary trouble.” As a child in Alabama, he experienced racism and segregation. When he was just 15 years old he heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak on the radio, and it inspired him to join the Civil Rights movement. But when it was time for him to go to college, he was not allowed to enroll in the school he wanted to attend, because it was for whites only. He was a founding member of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), and he became one of the youngest leaders of the Civil Rights movement. He dedicated his life to fighting for equality and justice. Many times he put himself in personal danger in order to fight for fundamental rights for his people, including for many years as a U.S. Representative from the state of Georgia. The John Lewis Voting Rights Act is named in honor of his lifelong dedicated championship of voting rights.