Organizers said that if it wasn‘t for late Congressman Lewis, they wouldn‘t have the platform to do what they did Saturday night.
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John Lewis: ‚Now it is your turn to let freedom ring‘
Lewis called on the next generation to carry on the mantle of civil rights and continue getting into “good trouble, necessary trouble.”
“While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story when you used your power to make a difference in our society,” Lewis wrote.
Trump will not visit Capitol to pay respects to civil rights icon John Lewis
“I won’t be going, no,” Trump said before departing the White House for a trip to North Carolina when asked if he planned to visit the Capitol either Monday or Tuesday to pay his respects to Lewis.
Congressman John Lewis arrives at U.S. Capitol (LIVE) | USA TODAY
Congressman John Lewis, civil rights leader and icon, will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.
Watch live: John Lewis crosses Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma a final time
Civil rights icon John Lewis‘ body is being carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday. It‘s the bridge that he crossed in the march to Montgomery on March 7, 1965, a day that would become known as „Bloody Sunday.“
The Radical Resistance of John Lewis
Representative John Lewis, who died Friday at age 80, will be remembered as a principal hero of the blood-drenched era not so long ago when Black people in the South were being shot, blown up or driven from their homes for seeking basic human rights. The moral authority Mr. Lewis exercised in the House of Representatives — while representing Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District for more than 30 years — found its headwaters in the aggressive yet self-sacrificial style of protests that he and his compatriots in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee deployed in the early 1960s as part of the campaign that overthrew Southern apartheid.
„You cannot be afraid to speak out and speak up for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.“ ~ Congressman John Lewis
A history of surveillance: Rep. John Lewis reads his own FBI file to make a point about government spying
Recall that the federal government heavily monitored and infiltrated civil rights and antiwar organizations in the 50s and 60s – the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. himself was wiretapped by the Democratic administrations of Kennedy and Johnson. Earlier this week Lewis voted against the USA Freedom Act, which many have criticized as doing little to actually rein in NSA abuses.
President Obama Marks the 50th Anniversary of the Marches from Selma to Montgomery
(8.März) Many of those original „foot soldiers“ joined him yesterday, including Congressman John Lewis, who helped to organize the first march over this bridge in 1965, who endured a tragic beating on that „Bloody Sunday,“ and who yesterday strode arm in arm with the President of the United States.
Georgia lawmaker speaks out against Libya war funding
“There is nothing more powerful than protest, there is nothing more powerful than getting out there, making noise and making protest heard,” said Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) in response to the expressed appreciation of protestors who gathered recently in front of the his 5th congressional headquarters.