Posted on 07/17/2020 9:13:11 PM PDT by bitt
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the renowned civil rights leader who served as a symbol of the movement throughout his more than three decades in Congress, died Friday at the age of 80.
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. on “Bloody Sunday,” Lewis decisively carved a place for himself in the history books as a courageous young activist during the height of the civil rights movement.
He was elected to Congress in 1986 and served 17 terms representing an Atlanta-area district. While in Congress, Lewis served as a physical reminder of how far the country had come on civil rights — and how much more was left to be done.
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), of which Lewis was one of its most senior members, mourned that “the world has lost a legend.”
“The Congressional Black Caucus is known as the Conscience of the Congress. John Lewis was known as the conscience of our caucus,” the CBC said in a statement. Lewis, the youngest keynote speaker at the March on Washington in 1963, was the only person who delivered remarks at the event to witness Barack Obama winning election as the nation’s first African American president 45 years later.
When Lewis asked Obama to sign a commemorative photograph at his 2009 inauguration, the newly sworn-in president wrote: “Because of you, John.”
Lewis was born on Feb. 21, 1940 to a family of sharecroppers on a farm outside of Troy, Ala., and attended segregated public schools. Inspired by the activism demonstrated by Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis began his work of what he liked to call “good trouble.”
Lewis started his civil rights activism by organizing sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in Nashville,
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An 18th term is not out of question
Got the crap beaten out of him by Democrats, then developed Stockholm Syndrome.
I’ll be respectful....Good riddance......
It is not the job that makes them selfish, it is selfish people gravitate towards politics and become career politicians. Our Founding Fathers warned us about career politicians but we, as a society, have forgotten their warning.
Many years ago I started telling people that career politicians were basically all sociopaths. Last year I saw an article stating that very thing.
“I seem to recall that when he ran against and beat Julian Bond, he’d accused Bond of being a cokehead and liar.”
It’s true.
I remember way back in ‘86 when Lewis and Bond faced off in the Dem run-off. The winner was as good as elected to Congress because it was a heavily Dem district.
Lewis won the run-off narrowly primarily by winning huge margins among white liberals who were alarmed at Bond’s fiery rhetoric. Lewis was thought to be calmer and more well thought out.
that about sums up Lewis simply a race hustler.
On this sad day, I’m going to say Prayers to his family.
Why do they call it “civil rights”? It was black rights and had nothing to do with civil. Civil rights encompasses ALL races in my book, not just some butt hurt minority. Anyhow, good riddance to this rat
He’s gone...’nuff sed
Dang, two in one year. Bonus
Oh great, another national holiday to be named.
Or all of the above!!
This guy was living off the conk on the head he got at the bridge.
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During a campaign for The House in '86, he ran advertisements accusing Julian Bond of corruption, implying that Bond used cocaine.
Slimey as always.
He’ll still be voting 50 years from now.
They’re “place holders” for life basically.
..... sitting pretty close together on the Roller Coaster
Worth Repeating...
“Lewis did more harm to genuine civil rights than he did good for them. He was a tool of the radical Left”
Other than the size of their heads what’s the difference?
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