John Lewis Witnessed A 'River Of Activism' Flow From The Civil Rights Movement To Black Lives Matter
As people remember the late Congressman John Lewis at his funeral on Thursday, we look at what his fight for civil rights means for activists today.
A day before he was admitted to the hospital, Congressman John Lewis visited the Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., to see the latest stage of the civil rights movement in action.
“I just had to see and feel it for myself that after many years of silent witness, the truth is still marching on,” he wrote in an published in the New York Times on Thursday, the day of his funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
