Raised to prominence in a time of turmoil and struggle, the civil rights legend still provides inspiration in a new time of turmoil and struggle
Rep. John Lewis speaks during a press conference in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. in 2013.John Robert Lewis’s American passage made perhaps its most poignant earthbound crossing in the sunshine of an Alabama morning Sunday, traversing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the blood-soaked city of Selma for the last time – an echo of a journey that will live in the country’s history forever.
And as this occurred, Mr. Lewis’s acolytes and allies were united not in lamentation, but in thanksgiving. In all three of those processions, Black Americans – often weeping – were in deep mourning but were at the sidelines. In this one, a Black man – his skull cracked on Bloody Sunday 1965 – was the centrepiece.
If Mr. Lewis’s progression – a metaphor for his progression, and for America’s – has the air of a bus schedule, then that is a metaphor with real power. U.S. President Barack Obama presents a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington in 2011.And it was through these lumbering yellow vehicles that the bitterly divisive remedy of busing was employed to enforce school integration, with violence and enduring enmity in Boston.
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