Jon Meacham Remembers Civil Rights Hero John Lewis

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🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Pulitzer-winning historian Jon Meacham recalls his 30 year friendship with the late Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis. Meacham describes as an almost Biblical arc to John Lewis's life, and how Lewis’s Christian faith informed his activism. He describes the horrible day in Selma, Alabama known as "Bloody Sunday," and how Lewis remained steadfast and at peace even as state troopers beat him within an inch of his life on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. He discusses his final conversation wit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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