PROTESTERS JOIN THE NATION IN MARKING FIVE YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS. TONIGHT, PEOPLE GATHERED TO START WHAT LEWIS CALLED GOOD TROUBLE. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S PETE CUDDIHY EARLIER WENT TO THE PROTEST IN DOWNTOWN OMAHA.

More than 200 rallied in Fort Myers to honor John Lewis and protest what they see as threats to civil and human rights.

The gatherings invoked the Civil Rights leader’s memory while offering another venue for groups protesting the Trump administration this year.

Across the country, protesters rallied on Thursday under a shared refrain inspired by former congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis: “Good trouble lives on.” Thousands of people took to the streets in what organizers cast as a national day of action — a sweeping protest of the Trump administration’s cuts to safety net programs and efforts to roll back protections for immigrants and marginalized communities.

Former Representative John Lewis was a prominent figure of the civil rights movement and called peaceful protests “good trouble.”