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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I wonder what he thought of BLM
And he’ll still be voting in November.
How many free lunches did John Lewis get for something he did ages ago? What had he done for his community since, besides blaming whitey and making excuses?
“Conscience of The Congress”
Not.
CC
Lewis was a National hero in the 60’s. For the life of me, I can’t understand why he went corrupt RAT.
Another Democrat/Socialist Show Funeral coming up!
More lectures by Sharpton, Jackson, BLM, Mad-Maxine, Fancy-Nancy,and many, many more.
And how much damage was he able to inflict on this country during his tenure before meeting his maker today?
Bkmk
Hopefully he and Nancy will soon be discussing politics around the campfire.
And probably winning another term in Congress!
I’m sure that the money was good. Just keep blaming The White Man for your every ache and pain.
Sigh! Now we have to sit through endless media praise for him all week. He was anti-White all the way.
Happy July 17th!
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.
This is a common thought on the left, that no matter how much has been accomplished in the area of civil rights, that no matter how far we have come, that there is still a long way to go.
Repeat a lie often enough, and.............
When it comes to civil rights, major civil rights laws in the 1960s broke the back of “Jim Crow” laws. Policies on affirmative action have been in place for decades in government employment, many major companies, and the field of education.
My ongoing question, is what more needs to be done? In the area of legislation and policies meant to promote black and other minority achievement, we have already done all of those things.
If too many black young men go off and go God knows what with youth gangs, rather than getting an education and achieving something positive in life, how is that due to ongoing racism?????
RIP
(For some reason, I thought he had passed, months back.)
Difficult to say anything regarding this man that will not incur disdain. Let it go....good bye....
He went crazy in his later years. Sad.
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