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Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis dies
The Hill ^ | 7/17/2020 | christina marcos

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: georgia; johnlewis; lewistheracist; liar; meetyourmaker; nodownside; racepimp; wellbye
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To: lee martell

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.


61 posted on 07/17/2020 9:55:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: bitt

well I guess they do die from time to time....


62 posted on 07/17/2020 9:57:37 PM PDT by cherry
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To: NFHale

I’m sure we’ll hear that he hs picked a ‘successor’...


63 posted on 07/17/2020 9:57:38 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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To: caww
"He had Stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosed in Dec. 2019"

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.

64 posted on 07/17/2020 9:57:47 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: bitt

Enjoy hell, John.


65 posted on 07/17/2020 9:59:56 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Dilbert San Diego
My ongoing question, is what more needs to be done?

They won’t be finished, till every white person is either dead, destitute, or in a re-education camp.

66 posted on 07/17/2020 10:00:23 PM PDT by Mark17 (Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. USAF RULES)
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To: Secret Agent Man

He sure was and it sure is.


67 posted on 07/17/2020 10:05:35 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: willk
Is he the one that claimed he was called the N word when walking past a Tea Party rally?

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.

68 posted on 07/17/2020 10:06:28 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Father in Heaven, I trust in Your love.)
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To: Mark17
They won’t be finished, till every white person is either dead, destitute, or in a re-education camp.

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.

69 posted on 07/17/2020 10:07:21 PM PDT by sport
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To: sport
The White Liberal is our number one enemy.

If they are not number one, they are certainly a close second. 😁👍

70 posted on 07/17/2020 10:10:13 PM PDT by Mark17 (Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. USAF RULES)
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To: mass55th
lol, and to right of last week's article, it says he's dead. RIP


71 posted on 07/17/2020 10:12:39 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: bitt

Like John McCain, made a living of one honorable thing he did back in the 60s


72 posted on 07/17/2020 10:13:07 PM PDT by Burma Jones
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To: mass55th

Buzzards gotta eat too.


73 posted on 07/17/2020 10:15:24 PM PDT by fka herewego (Got .45?)
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To: bitt

Atlanta area collective IQ went up several points with his passing. /s


74 posted on 07/17/2020 10:19:14 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: fka herewego

Same as the worms. RIH John Lewis


75 posted on 07/17/2020 10:19:43 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I seem to recall that when he ran against and beat Julian Bond, he'd accused Bond of being a cokehead and liar.

76 posted on 07/17/2020 10:20:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Precisely.

I couldn’t stand the drooling veneration of this guy when he was corrupt as the day is long.


77 posted on 07/17/2020 10:27:02 PM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: bitt

No one remembers him dying 2 years ago?

Mandela effect. I live in Atlanta. You guys really don’t remember??


78 posted on 07/17/2020 10:28:28 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: willk

No, that was Emmanuel Cleaver.


79 posted on 07/17/2020 10:30:10 PM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: White Lives Matter

Not me. There’s a Duck Dynasty marathon around the time he’s lowered in the hole.


80 posted on 07/17/2020 10:36:16 PM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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