John Lewis
It is sad to read of the passing yesterday of John Lewis, the Democrat Congressman from Georgia.
Politically, I didn't agree with Lewis on many issues, but I always respected him for his civil rights background. Lewis was attacked at the infamous Selma, Alabama march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge in 1965 when his skull was fractured. This was a man who lived through the dark days of Jim Crow in the South, fought it, and certainly paid his dues in terms of suffering discrimination and putting his life on the line to fight true injustice.
RIP, Mr Lewis.
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