On Feb. 27, 1960, several white men (left) attempt to drag two black students, including John Lewis, from the lunch counter where they staged a sit-down against segregation at Woolworth on Fifth in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. | Jimmy Ellis/The Tennessean via AP

Professor of history, David Greenberg, joins Jonathan Capehart to discuss his new expansive biography on John Lewis. The memoir reveals surprising details about his accomplishments and the hardships Lewis had to endure to achieve them.

The city hall showdown was not the end — it was the beginning of a yearslong fight to desegregate the rest of Nashville. After that initial victory, Lewis’ once-hardy band of comrades — the dozens who staged the sit-ins,