Matt McKeon
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Representative John Lewis passed away yesterday at age 80, of cancer.
Lewis was one of the Freedom Riders and was injured by a mob during that demonstration. He was also in the march from Selma to Montgomery, and was severely injured by the Alabama State Police on the Edward Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday," carrying the scars for the rest of his life.(If you see a newsreel of this incident, Lewis is the young man in the light colored raincoat at the front of the line).
Speaking of his first arrest in Jackson, Mississippi, he smiled in his mugshot. "I smiled because I was on the right side of history. Find a way to get in the way."
Lewis was one of the Freedom Riders and was injured by a mob during that demonstration. He was also in the march from Selma to Montgomery, and was severely injured by the Alabama State Police on the Edward Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday," carrying the scars for the rest of his life.(If you see a newsreel of this incident, Lewis is the young man in the light colored raincoat at the front of the line).
Speaking of his first arrest in Jackson, Mississippi, he smiled in his mugshot. "I smiled because I was on the right side of history. Find a way to get in the way."