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Five Powerful Ways to Honor Congressman John Lewis’ Memory
How we can ALL “stand up, speak up, and speak out” to continue his legacy.
Heroes walk among us and America recently lost one of it’s greatest Freedom Riders.
John Robert Lewis, the third of ten children born to sharecroppers Willie Mae and Eddie Lewis on February 21, 1940, was called home to rest on July 17, 2020.
In the eighty years that represents the dash between those dates, this giant in our midst accomplished a millennium's worth of work, including the right for me a Black woman to express myself freely on this medium (pun intended).
I would need an infinite amount of space and time to list each of Congressman Lewis’ achievements. His entire life was filled with protests and marches for justice, including the March on Selma (Bloody Sunday) that he helped organize with another young and courageous civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He served as chairman of SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), an organization credited with conducting drugstore counter sit-ins and for their tireless fight to eliminate voter suppression. He fearlessly dedicated himself to the struggle for justice and equality and was selected to be one of the keynote speakers at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963 when he was just…
