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Civil Rights Leader & U.S. Congressman
About John Lewis
On March 7, 1965, I knelt to pray on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, then stood up and walked forward as state troopers advanced with clubs and tear gas. That day, my skull was fractured, and the blood on that pavement became a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. For over three decades in Congress, I didn’t just vote for legislation, I drafted amendments, held hearings in rural Georgia courthouses, and insisted that every bill be tested against its impact on sharecroppers’ granddaughters and factory workers’ sons. My office kept a worn copy of the U.S. Constitution annotated in pencil with marginalia about gerrymandering cases and poll tax repeal timelines. I believed moral clarity required concrete action: registering voters door-to-door in the Mississippi Delta at 18, filing lawsuits against discriminatory literacy tests at 25, and later, personally escorting first-time Black voters to precincts in Atlanta, even after becoming a congressman. Justice wasn’t abstract; it lived in the weight of a ballot, the length of a line, the tone of a registrar’s voice.
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