on greyhound and trailways routes from washington, d.c. to virginia, north and south carolina, georgia, alabama, mississippi heading to new orleans. we propose to challenge on route every form of segregation met by the bus passenger and experienced in and dedicated to the gandhiian principles of nonviolence. our plans are entirely open. and they were. they gave this detailed item continuary of everywhere they would be every day. they gave their full explanation for why they were doing this and how they thought it would succeed. they also gave this complete list of names and biographies of every person who would be participating saved them the trouble of having to investigate all these folks, here you are, here's who we will be here's what you need to know about us and on that list of names you see a name you might recognize john lew wuss then the student body president of the american baptist theological seminary in tennessee. at that point in 1961 john lewis was a 21-year-old. already a veteran protester who had been arrested five times in