The Life and Legacy of John Lewis

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This episode includes disturbing language including racial slurs. Representative John Lewis, a stalwart of the civil rights era, died on Friday. We take a look at his life, lessons and legacy. Guest: Brent Staples, a member of the Times editorial board. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: Mr. Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma, Ala., and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who then carried a mantle of moral authority into Congress, died on Friday. He was 80.Bipartisan praise poured in for the civil rights leader, as friends, colleagues and admirers reached for the appropriate superlatives to sum up an extraordinary life.Mr. Lewis risked his life for justice, The Times’s editorial board wrote.

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0:25.6	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:32.6	This is the Daily.
0:39.6	Today, the Life, Lessons and Legacy of John Lewis.
0:46.3	I spoke with my colleague, Times editorial board member Brent Stables.
0:58.6	It's Monday, July 20.
1:06.4	Brent I want to start by going back with you to the time when John Lewis and others began
1:13.8	engaging in non-violent protests as part of the Civil Rights Movement.
1:18.8	Where were you during that period?
1:22.0	Like everyone else at the time in the middle of the 60s, I was sitting with my parents
1:26.7	watching television.
1:34.6	It's 11 p.m. and time for the reporters and the news.
1:39.8	Good evening, bad news for Alabama today, some school desegregation strategy has backfired.
1:45.3	A late-minute occasionally club demonstrators and use a variety of other tactics designed
1:49.9	to break their spirit.
1:50.9	And the nightly news of the scenes of people being ravaged by the police in the south
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