US Congressman And Civil Rights Champion, John Lewis, Is Dead
In this file photo taken on February 27, 2013 Rep. John Lewis, D-GA, speaks during a press conference in front of the US Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. MANDEL NGAN / AFPJohn Lewis, the civil rights warrior who died Friday aged 80, excelled at what he liked to call “good trouble” — standing up against racial injustice to forge a better United States.
She described Lewis as “a titan of the civil rights movement whose goodness, faith and bravery transformed our nation.” Two years later Lewis nearly died while leading hundreds of marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on a peace march to Montgomery when state troopers, seeking to intimidate those demonstrating for voting rights for black Americans, attacked protesters.Fifty years later in 2015, he walked across the bridge arm in arm with Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, to mark the anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march.
“He loved this country so much that he risked his life and his blood so that it might live up to its promise,” Obama added.Reverend CT Vivian staged anti-segregation sit-ins in the 1940s, was an early advisor to King and helped organize the Freedom Rides. He died early Friday at 95. In this file photo taken on April 25, 2018 France’s President Emmanuel Macron stands with US Rep. John Lewis in front of the Martin Luther King,Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC. Eric BARADAT / AFPLewis, who organized sit-ins at segregated lunch counters and was arrested two dozen times for non-violent protests, was a founder and eventual chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, where he wrote speeches against police brutality and campaigned to register black voters.
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