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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This funeral will become a launching pad for the Biden campaign. It’ll be a freak show. And the sight of these opportunists dancing on Lewis’ grave (without masks on) MAY be the moment when America realizes that this guy is wrong for us.
well I guess they do die from time to time....
I’m sure we’ll hear that he hs picked a ‘successor’...
That's plenty of time to plan your funeral and lying in State in the Capitol, like John McCain did.
Well, at least he won't have to worry about not attending President Trump's second Inauguration.
The congressman said that Trump was not a “legitimate” president — even before he was sworn in.
Enjoy hell, John.
They won’t be finished, till every white person is either dead, destitute, or in a re-education camp.
He sure was and it sure is.
That's what I wondered. The person who said that had no proof, and none of the videos captured it, so it was probably a lie.
The self hating Whites and the White Guilt White Liberals will be leading the way to the camps. That is who our fight is with. The White Liberal is our number one enemy.
If they are not number one, they are certainly a close second. 😁👍
Like John McCain, made a living of one honorable thing he did back in the 60s
Buzzards gotta eat too.
Atlanta area collective IQ went up several points with his passing. /s
Same as the worms. RIH John Lewis
I seem to recall that when he ran against and beat Julian Bond, he'd accused Bond of being a cokehead and liar.
Precisely.
I couldn’t stand the drooling veneration of this guy when he was corrupt as the day is long.
No one remembers him dying 2 years ago?
Mandela effect. I live in Atlanta. You guys really don’t remember??
No, that was Emmanuel Cleaver.
Not me. There’s a Duck Dynasty marathon around the time he’s lowered in the hole.
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