Georgia state Sen. Nikema Williams has been chosen to take the place of the late Rep. John Lewis on the ballot in November
State Sen. Nikema Williams has been chosen to replace the late Rep. John Lewis on the ballot in November, paving the way for the first black woman elected to lead the Georgia Democratic Party to serve the Atlanta-area district in Congress next year.
State Sen. Nikema Williams, an Atlanta area Democrat, talks to a colleague on the floor of the Georgia State Senate in February.The legacy of Lewis, a civil rights icon who was first elected to Congress in 1986, shone over the vote on Monday. Lewis helped organize the Freedom Rides, spoke at the 1963 March on Washington and led the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where a state trooper fractured his skull with a billy club.
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