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Photo: Nikki Kahn /The Washington Post
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Representative John Lewis
1940 – 2020
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Remembering Representative John Lewis
IN HIS OWN WORDS
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An Alabama state trooper swings a billy club at John Lewis, right foreground,
chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,
to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965.
(AP) (unknown/AP)
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7 June 2020
Civil rights leader and Democratic
Rep. John Lewis
visited the
“BLACK LIVES MATTER”
street banner
painted outside of the White House,
alongside Washington, D.C.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/politics/john-lewis-visits-black-lives-matter-mural/index.html
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‘Get in good trouble,
necessary trouble’
https://www.johnlewisgoodtrouble.com/
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“Some children have an uncanny sense of their destiny.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Could the boy reciting those lines have imagined
that he would famously endure vicious beatings by white supremacists?
That he would survive,
and go on to serve more than three decades in Congress?
Lewis, who died Friday at age 80,
was one of 10 children raised by sharecropper parents in Pike County, Ala.
As I have learned while working on his biography,
Lewis always loved to read — comic books,
the Bible and, as a teenager, the Montgomery Advertiser.
In its pages he absorbed the thrilling news in 1955
of the Montgomery bus boycott
and
its 26-year-old leader and apostle of nonviolence,
the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/18/invictus-was-among-john-lewiss-favorite-poems-it-captures-his-indomitable-spirit/
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INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invictus
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reFRAME: E Catherine L. Johnson 2020
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https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/929-reframe-a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-2020-catherine-l-johnson-o-say-can-you-see-steve-reich-come-out-1966/
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I am grieving .
John Lewis’
unconquerable dignity,
loving humility,
crucible integrity
and
his indomitable, courageous, fierce, gentle
radiant soul
was as
John Coltrane’s visionary breakaway GIANT STEPS.
“…never, ever give up
or give in or give out.
And whatever you do,
do it
with
faith
and
hope
and
much love.”
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Oh, Carrie.
Representative John Lewis , I know, was your ‘guy’
– your ‘truth- teller’ representing/guiding/loving your district,
your neighborhood.
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🌟TODAY! SUNDAY 19 JULY! 🌟
🌟PLEASE JOIN!🌟
🌟’The Prince St. Civil Rights KITE FLYING’🌟
Upper Landing (along the Mississippi off Shepherd Rd)!
https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/parks-recreation/harriet-island/upper-landing-park?NID=1242
7PM
SOAR your KITE
to
celebrate / commemorate
the
heroic + cherished life
of
THE
civil rights icon,
🌟Rep. John Lewis🌟
AWEMAN!
Yes!
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19 July 2020
His FIRST kite FLYING experience!
It was his Mother’s FIRST experience, too!
She was in the audience listening to
Rep. John Lewis
when he spoke on
Jan. 16, 2006 at the MLK Holiday Breakfast:
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/01/16_mccalluml_mlkday/
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/01/20/mlk-day-keynotes-by-holder-and-lewis
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My CIVIL RIGHTS kite!
My VOTE t-shirt and my bandana mask!
WHERE EVER YOU ARE,
PLEASE
SOAR A KITE
TO THE HEAVENS
IN GRATITUDE
FOR
REP. JOHN LEWIS!
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CATHERINE L. JOHNSON 
Love this image of his first kite flying session! What a great moment to be a part of! Can’t wait to join in on the fun next time!