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RIP John Lewis

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18 July 2020, 05:39 AM
wtg
RIP John Lewis
quote:
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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18 July 2020, 05:59 AM
Daniel
RIP.
18 July 2020, 09:56 AM
CHAS
That is a loss for the country.


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18 July 2020, 07:46 PM
Piano*Dad
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.
18 July 2020, 08:45 PM
wtg
Obama’s post on Medium.

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


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When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

18 July 2020, 09:12 PM
BeeLady
One commentator today said something that made me gasp. Something like..this...

"He was our moral compass."


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