CCNA mourns the loss of Congressman John Lewis, the son of sharecroppers and renowned Civil Rights Leader for racial justice. We thank him for his legacy of service. A member of the Freedom Riders, he was the youngest speaker at the March on Washington in 1963 and two years later had his skull fractured during “Bloody Sunday,” a Civil Rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama where police attacked and brutally beat protestors. Congressman Lewis advocated for all to cause”good trouble.”
After announcing his latest battle, this time with cancer, Congressman Lewis said: “I have been in some kind of fight — for freedom, equality, basic human rights — for nearly my entire life.”
He stood side by side with DC Mayor Muriel Bowser at the new, can be seen from outer space, Black Lives Matter letters on the street leading directly to the White House.
A commemorative from President Barack Obama’s 2009 Inauguration, signed by President Obama to Congressman Lewis reads: “Because of you John.”
The Civil Rights icon died Friday, July 17th. He was 80.
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