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Rep. John Lewis, the sharecroppers' son who battled against segregation — getting his head bashed by an Alabama state trooper in Selma on "Bloody Sunday" 1965 — and later became a 17-term congressman from Georgia, has died. He was 80.

He died Friday, his family said. He was diagnosed with cancer in December.


https://news.google.com/articl...S&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen


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That is a loss for the country.


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What John Lewis was planning to say in 1963, but was prevailed upon to soften ...

Danny Glover reads ...

This is worth hearing. And it's worth understanding why he was strongly told to soften things, and why he agreed at that time.
 
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Obama’s post on Medium.

https://medium.com/@BarackObam...n-lewis-fa86761cd964


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One commentator today said something that made me gasp. Something like..this...

"He was our moral compass."


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