“A Mandate To Be On the Right Side Of History”: John Lewis, Seminal Civil Rights Leader and Congressman, Dies at 80
“A Mandate To Be On the Right Side Of History”: John Lewis, Seminal Civil Rights Leader and Congressman, Dies at 80
A freedom rider, non-violent warrior on the Edmund Pettus bridge, confidante of Martin Luther King and leader of SNCC, Lewis spent more than three decades in Congress—and lived to see his movement take another step.