#Selma

Ted Cruz

tedcruz

Tonight, the world grieves for the great John Lewis. In my 1st yr in the Senate, I had the privilege of traveling w/ John & much of the Congressional Black

NBC News

NBCNews

BREAKING: Rep. John Lewis, civil rights icon, has died at age 80 after a monthslong battle with cancer, a Democratic official says. https://nbcnews.to/3eMhNW0 The longtime Georgia congressman, an advocate of

Dr. Jeffrey Guterman

JeffreyGuterman

This is the start of my second thread on John Lewis. #JohnLewisRIP https://twitter.com/JeffreyGuterman/status/1284540940162674688 John Lewis on January 15, 2017: "I don't see the President-elect as a legitimate president." #Jo

Gail Helt

ghelt

To people citing the Nixon pardon as a way to justify a pardon of Trump and those involved in Wednesday’s #insurrection at the #Capitol, to create unity: The Nixon case

Wendell Pierce

WendellPierce

The President of the United States lies to undermine the integrity of our democracy. He incited violence. Welcome to our reality as African Americans. Poll tax, literacy test, kidnapping, and

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread: A painful day for humanity, John Lewis (1940-2020) has gone to the angels. He was a giant of human rights, a man of God, of honour & righteousness. He

Maureen Johnson

maureenjohnson

Let me tell you a story. One time, several years ago now, I was invited out to some cocktail thing for a writer who had a new literary novel out.

cptnwillie

cptnwillie

1/ Some of us have lived thru this-once before!1965 Selma Alabama voting rights march-1965 Watts Rebellion-1966 Hollywood Protests-1970 Kent State University Demonstrations-to mention-just a few. And each time-history has proven-that

POLITICO

politico

BREAKING: John Lewis, who went from being the youngest leader of the 1963 March on Washington to a long-serving congressman from Georgia and icon of the civil rights movement, has

Peter Arenella

arenella1

1]One of my personal heroes, Cong. Lewis, {a man I met only once in Selma, Alabama before he was beaten by "deputized" KLU KLUX clansmen and local police} has died.

Canadian Forces in 🇺🇸

CAFinUS

When a U.S. Navy ship runs aground in Newfoundland, sailors scramble to abandon ship. But this man hesitates. For a moment, he thinks he’s better off dying in the frigid

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD

Arrianna_Planey

Absolutely not. And apparently, there is an image depicting people using John Lewis’ back as a bridge**? Again: absolutely not**(Ref to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL) This tweet

Sara Sheridan

sarasheridan

Today a THREAD of Scottish WWII sheroes who shone in adversity. 1st resistance fighter & nurse Mary Helen Young helped prisoners escape Nazi-occuped France. Killed in Ravensbruck, novelist, Simone St

National Museum of American History

amhistorymuseum

Reverend C. T. Vivian embodied the values that made the Black Freedom Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s revolutionary and inspiring: courage, commitment, sacrifice, and strategy. Rev. Vivian first became

Jake Walker

Jake_W

Public history/memory thought here: I have no love for the Confederacy, but at the same time, I think one of the reasons the Edmund Pettus bridge holds such significance as

Sherrilyn Ifill

Sifill_LDF

Thinking over the moments that motivated me this year & how powerfully & clearly this country revealed itself. It was confirmation of all I have known, but I also learned

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