I shall tell my grand children this story. The hearse with the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., drives on 16th Street, renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza, near the White House in Washington, DC.. Faith Chapel South
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms sits with her husband, Derek, during the funeral for the Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
The flag-draped casket of the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is carried by a joint services military honor guard up the steps of the East front steps of Capitol Hill in Washington Monday. Andrew Young. Faith Chapel South
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Lewis’ skull was fractured. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. John Lewis, then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, is beaten by an Alabama state trooper as the police break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., with billy clubs and violence March 7, 1965.
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John Lewis, an icon of Congress and the civil rights movement, was laid to rest Thursday in Atlanta, eulogized by former presidents and civil rights leaders who celebrated his commitment to justice and urged Americans to carry on his mission.Speaking from the pulpit of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, former President Obama said he owed a great debt to Lewis, whom he hailed as a “man of pure joy and unbreakable perseverance” and “a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better America.”After praising Lewis’ courage as a young Freedom Rider who led sit-ins against segregation and marches for voting rights to “challenge an entire infrastructure of oppression,” the nation’s first Black president stressed that Lewis’ work was not done.“He knew that the march is not yet over, that the race is not yet won, that we have not yet reached that blessed destination where we are judged by the content of our character,” Obama said.In a pointed critique of Republicans, Obama condemned those who are “doing their darnedest to discourage people from voting” by closing polling stations, targeting minorities and undermining the Postal Service ahead of the November general election. Pastor Arnold had come south to support the Civil Rights struggle when he heard of the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson in Selma.
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Speaker after speaker on Thursday said the best way to carry on Lewis’ legacy was to exercise the right to vote.“What you can do, and I want to advise you and admonish you, to really give meaning to the John we love: Vote,” said Xernona Clayton, a civil rights activist and the godmother of Lewis’ son.At times, the eulogies seemed to mourn not just Lewis, but the broader political spirit he upheld: of looking for the best in humanity, of working across the aisle, of seeking to listen and understand those he disagreed with.Former President George W. Bush, a Republican, acknowledged that he and Lewis did not agree on everything — Lewis had also boycotted Bush’s 2001 inauguration after the contested 2000 election — but the former president stressed that their difference of opinion was evidence of American democracy in action.“We the people, including congressmen and presidents, can have different views on how to affect our union, while sharing the conviction that our nation, however flawed, is a good and noble one,” Bush said. Trump didn’t give a reason, but Lewis had boycotted his 2017 inauguration and said he was not a “legitimate” president.Earlier in the day, Trump took to Twitter to say that efforts to broaden mail-in voting as a result of the coronavirus would result in the most “INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history.” He proposed delaying the November election, which he does not have the authority to do.Rep. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a procession behind the casket of Jimmie Lee Jackson during funeral rites in Marion. to help all who come here to find comfort and healing. His mother Viola and maternal grandfather Cager Lee had also attempted to register, also unsuccessfully.On the night of February 18, 1965, about 500 people organized by the Jackson was honored at his memorial service, eulogized as a martyr to a moral cause.Two memorial services were held for Jimmie Lee Jackson.