John Lewis Death | Passed Away | Obituary
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Representative John Lewis, who died on Friday at 80, was among the 13 original Freedom Riders, who encountered violence and resistance as they rode buses across the South, challenging the U.S.’s segregation laws
Representative John Lewis, who died on Friday at 80, was among the 13 original Freedom Riders, who encountered violence and resistance as they rode buses across the South, challenging the U.S.’s segregation laws https://t.co/yyyjPUTKki
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 20, 2020
Remembering Congressman John Lewis and his sacrifice. I will never forget helping to hold him up at the last Selma Anniversary on the Edmund Pettus bridge that he was once beaten on, we thank him for helping to hold us up for the past 80 years. #MorningJoe
Remembering Congressman John Lewis and his sacrifice. I will never forget helping to hold him up at the last Selma Anniversary on the Edmund Pettus bridge that he was once beaten on, we thank him for helping to hold us up for the past 80 years. #MorningJoe pic.twitter.com/FzVHu5FSTx
— Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) July 20, 2020
HOUSE HOLDS MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR JOHN LEWIS: The House of Representatives holds a moment of silence to honor the late Rep. John Lewis. Lewis was a leader and organizer of the Civil Rights Movement who coordinated and spoke at the 1963 March on Washington, was beaten by police as he marched for voting rights in Selma in 1965, and was instrumental in getting major antidiscrimation legislation passed. He represented Georgia as a U.S. congressman since his election in 1986 and became known as ‘the conscience of Congress.’ Lewis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and passed late Friday night at the age of 80.
Sad to hear the news that civil rights legend John Lewis died yesterday. He was such a great leader who fought with honesty and bravery for civil rights in America. Long may his memory remain in our hearts.
How about renaming the famous Pettus Bridge that he and Martin Luther King Jr. and others walked across in the 60s for the civil rights movement and rename it the John Lewis Bridge?!!!
Nancy and I are proud to support the NAACP and have recently donated to their legal defense fund.
As the United States mourns the loss of civil rights icon and 17-term Democratic Congressmember John Lewis, we feature his 2012 in-studio interview, when he tears up remembering the historic 1965 Selma to Montgomery march he helped lead in 1965 as a 25-year-old man, when he was almost beaten to death by police in what came to be called “Bloody Sunday” and helped push the country toward adopting the Voting Rights Act. “They came toward us, beating us with nightsticks and bullwhips, trampling us with horses,” he told Democracy Now! “All these many years later, I don’t recall how I made it back across that bridge to the church.”
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