The death of Congressman John Lewis last month accomplished what police officers with their billy clubs and white mobs with their fists and pipes never were able to achieve: Silencing his voice.
For 60 years, Lewis expressed his opinions – on segregation, on voting rights, on economic inequality – during sit-ins, picketing and speeches. Not everyone was interested in his views. More than once he was beaten nearly to death, and his head bore scars of a skull fracture and those beatings.
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