The nation flooded the internet and airwaves with mourning over the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), honoring the civil rights titan’s legacy of fighting…
The nation flooded the internet and airwaves with mourning over the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), honoring the civil rights titan’s legacy of fighting for equal rights for all.
Americans from across the political spectrum and all walks of life honored Lewis, who died late Friday night at the age of 80. Lewis carved his place in history with a lengthy career advocating for civil rights, from being beaten to within an inch of his life on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on “Bloody Sunday” to serving 17 terms representing an Atlanta-area district in Congress.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called Lewis “a titan of the civil rights movement whose goodness, faith and bravery transformed our nation” and a legislator who was “fearless in his pursuit of a more perfect union.”
“Every day of John Lewis’s life was dedicated to bringing freedom and justice to all,” she said. “In the Congress, John Lewis was revered and beloved on both sides of the aisle and both sides of the Capitol. All of us were humbled to call Congressman Lewis a colleague, and are heartbroken by his passing. May his memory be an inspiration that moves us all to, in the face of injustice, make ‘good trouble, necessary trouble.
