John Lewis Was an American Founder Without activists like Lewis and C. T. Vivian,

[tulipsandroses]

I've heard this a few times today - Second Founding Fathers - John Lewis, Rev CT Vivian, MLK, Rev Joseph Lowery, Andrew Young - - MAGATS are going to lose their shit talking about rewriting history - To channel Nikole Hannah Jones - yes we are trying to re-write history - The American History as its been told - has never been a complete story.

John Lewis Was an American Founder
Without activists like Lewis and C. T. Vivian, America would remain a white republic, not a nation for all its citizens.

This was only the beginning. Vivian and Lewis fought and bled for the cause at sit-ins, in the Freedom Rides of 1961, when police and the Ku Klux Klan worked hand in hand to brutalize protesters trying to desegregate public buses, through the March on Washington in 1963 and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches in 1965, where Lewis had his skull cracked open by Alabama state troopers. Without these men and their allies in the civil-rights movement, the maxim in the Declaration of Independence that all are created equal would be but words on paper written by slave masters. Absent their sacrifice, their bravery, and their brilliance, America would remain a herrenvolk republic, not a nation for all its citizens.

[link:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/how-john-lewis-founded-third-american-republic/614371/|

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Great idea to carry forward.

“Second Founding Fathers.”

[oasis]

2. Lewis will surely have the Edmund Pettus Bridge named after him

with a large plaque listing his many contributions.