John Lewis

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  2/7/2023
  

  Nashville's Historic Woolworth Building is in Trouble

  America faces a choice between preserving the sites of its civil rights history within the evolving fabric of cities and towns, or erecting more plaques explaining what happened in the buildings that used to be there.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta
  8/10/2021
  

  Latest Installment of Graphic Format Memoir of John Lewis Deals with Ongoing Legacy

  A conversation with Andrew Aydin, John Lewis's former aide and collaborator on "Run," the hit graphic format memoir, discusses the legacy of the activist and congressman. 

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  8/30/2020
  

  While Auburn Hides Behind Law, Troy University Takes Racist Name Off Building

  by Jennifer Brooks

  A history professor urges her university to defy an Alabama law that prohibits renaming a historic public building; the legacy of civil disobedience from the Civil Rights movement demands nothing less. 

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• 8/23/2020
  

  Two American Dreams: Will Voters Choose John Lewis's or Donald Trump's?

  by Walter G. Moss

  The late Congressman John Lewis and Donald Trump offer two starkly divergent versions of the American Dream--a choice between nurturing community and freedom and acquisitive materialism. 

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• 8/23/2020
  

  Mourning Two Civil Rights Heroes Across the Atlantic

  by Donald M. Beaudette and Laura Weinstein

  As we remember John Hume and John Lewis, we should find inspiration to continue their struggle.

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  8/18/2020
  

  Review: The New John Lewis Biography is a Stirring Tribute that Still Sells Him Short

  Readers who know little about Lewis will find an often moving story, but it will prove unsatisfying to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the movement.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/1/2020
  

  Stokely Carmichael Didn’t Deserve Bill Clinton’s Swipe During John Lewis’s Funeral

  by Hasan Kwame Jeffries

  This mischaracterization of Carmichael serves a purpose. It allows people to dismiss his critique of America.

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• SOURCE: Lawyers, Guns & Money
  8/3/2020
  

  We Don’t Need Bill Clinton’s History Of Civil Rights

  by Erik Loomis

  Bill Clinton decided to use John Lewis’ funeral to take a shot at Stokely Carmichael. The last thing we need is whites to use such opportunities to tell histories of the civil rights movements that are used to make them feel comfortable.

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• SOURCE: Ricochet
  7/24/2020
  

  Sean Wilentz: On the Importance of Studying and Debating American History (Podcast)

  Wilentz argues that understanding America’s past—from the inspiring to the shameful—is vital for what he calls informed citizenship.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/2020
  

  When I was 12, John Lewis Talked my Mom into Letting Me March with Him

  Because of Lewis, I got my first chance to protest my city’s and region’s racist policies and practices — from where we could eat, work, live, go to school, swim, party, play sports and even use the taxpayer-funded public restrooms.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/27/2020
  

  I Interviewed John Lewis 45 Years Ago. His Commitment To Voting Rights Never Wavered.

  “It’s still a source of pain that the Voting Rights Act has not been more actively enforced,” Lewis told me in 1975, 10 years after passage of the law.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/26/2020
  

  John Lewis Makes Final Journey Across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma (Video)

  Hundreds had gathered along the route from the church to the bridge, some traveling hours to see Lewis’s final journey, others lining up in the early morning.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/25/2020
  

  At Memorial Service, John Lewis’s Family Urges Americans To Keep His Legacy Alive

  Speakers at a public memorial service in Troy, Ala., Lewis’s birthplace, urged Americans to carry on his legacy.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  7/19/2020
  

  Police Would Treat John Lewis Today the Same Way They Treated Him in 1965

  "When police beat someone for challenging a morally diseased system, the phrase “beaten for challenging a morally diseased system” rarely gets written in the incident report."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/21/2020
  

  John Lewis’ Fight for Equality Was Never Limited to Just the United States

  by Keisha N. Blain

  By linking national concerns to global ones, John Lewis compelled others to see that the problems of racism and white supremacy were not contained within U.S. borders.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  7/20/2020
  

  Remembering John Lewis

  by Nicolaus Mills

  How long Lewis expected America to take before it woke up he did not say, but as he showed both in the 1960s and in a political career as a Georgia Congressman that began in 1987 and lasted until his death, Lewis did not tire when change did not go as he wanted.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  7/19/2020
  

  Petition Calls for Selma Bridge To Be Named After John Lewis

  Advocates for the name change include filmmaker Ava DuVernay and South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/19/2020
  

  Democrats Demand Expansion of Voting Rights in Memory of John Lewis

  House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn is calling on Trump to turn words into action.

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now!
  7/20/2020
  

  Rep. John Lewis on the Freedom Rides, Surviving KKK Attacks, 1963 March on Washington & Malcolm X

  In 2012, Rep. Lewis spoke to Democracy Now! about his efforts during the civil rights movement.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/18/2020
  

  The World John Lewis Helped Create

  Black leaders pause to reflect on the civil-rights icon and representative from Georgia, who spent decades calling for activism and “good trouble.”