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He went on to help organize the historic 1963 March on Washington and eventually brought his civil and human rights work from the streets to Capitol Hill, where he served in the House of Representative for over 30 years and was revered as \u201cthe conscience of the US Congress.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERev. Jesse Jackson, who worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and was a co-organizer of the March on Washington, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/07\/21\/jesse-jackson-legacy-selma-alabama-john-lewis-column\/5474010002\/\u0022\u003Eeulogized Lewis in USA Today\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJohn Lewis was a bright, curious, and ambitious boy born in 1940 and raised by sharecroppers in the small,\u00a0rural, segregated town of Troy, Alabama.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHe was 14 when Thurgood Marshall rendered the 1954\u00a0Brown v. Board of Education decision ending legal segregation.\u00a0He was 15 when Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi and\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/time.com\/4399793\/emmett-till-civil-rights-photography\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehis mangled body appeared in\u00a0Jet Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E. Rosa Parks, the\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/black-history\/montgomery-bus-boycott#:~:text=The%20Montgomery%20Bus%20Boycott%20was,scale%20U.S.%20demonstration%20against%20segregation.\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMontgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0and the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King\u00a0Jr. he\u2019d heard on the radio inspired him.\u00a0He wanted to be a part of changing things.\u00a0At 18\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/okra.stanford.edu\/transcription\/document_images\/Vol04Scans\/486_4-Sept-1958_From%20John%20Lewis.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehe wrote\u00a0King asking\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0for a meeting and when they met in Montgomery\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/john-lewis-the-boy-from-troy\/FPQXUXXHMZEUVCX3HORKOHCYHM\/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CSo%20you%20are%20John%20Lewis,vocal%20and%20long%2Dlived%20members.\u0026amp;text=His%20family%20says%20through%20it,rural%20tutelage%20of%20his%20parents.\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u00a0King said\u003C\/a\u003E, \u201cSo you are John Lewis, the boy from Troy.\u201d\u00a0John\u00a0became a key figure in a broad social and political movement.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EI met John Lewis in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, shortly after the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=18615556\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u00a0Woolworth\u2019s sit-in\u00a0\u003C\/a\u003Eamidst a growing student activist movement.\u00a0In Nashville, Rev. James Lawson and Rev. Kelly Miller Smith were mentoring students \u2014\u00a0John, Diane Nash, Bernard Lafayette, James Bevel and others \u2014\u00a0in the philosophy of Gandhian non-violent direct action and they soon became known civil rights activists.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJackson argues that democracy in the US didn\u2019t start with the signing of the Constitution. Instead, \u201cit was born, with John Lewis as midwife, in Selma, Alabama, in 1965,\u201d when Lewis led marchers across a bridge in a peaceful protest met with such violence that it is known as \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d \u2013 and which prompted swift passage of the Voting Rights Act that removed barriers for Black people trying to cast a ballot.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELewis had a significant impact on Nicole Austin-Hillery, head of the US program at Human Rights Watch. In an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/20\/opinions\/congressman-john-lewis-austin-hillery\/index.html\u0022\u003Eop-ed for CNN.com\u003C\/a\u003E, she recalls looking to Lewis for inspiration in the formative stages of her career. \u201cJohn Lewis was more than an icon or someone that I read about in books,\u201d she writes. \u201cI was a young, Black woman who grew up in public housing with dreams of becoming a civil rights lawyer, and John Lewis\u0027 journey was the template for the walk I hoped to take.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen Austin-Hillery got the chance to meet Lewis in his congressional office \u2013 which would be the first of several opportunities for them to meet and eventually work together \u2013 the moment was nothing sort of magical.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere was no question too small or obvious for him to answer. He gave me more time than anyone of his stature would have been expected to allow and I savored every story, every parable and every lesson he shared.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIt was his response to my last question that stuck and continues to guide me to this day. When I asked him how young people could ascend to leadership roles when seasoned leaders are unwilling to teach and mentor, he stiffened his back and without missing a beat told me: We didn\u0027t ask permission to move into leadership, we took it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EI see that today with the young warriors taking to the streets and demanding an end to systemic racism and injustice in the United States and around the globe.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAustin-Hillery says that one of the biggest lessons that Lewis imparted on her is the connection between civil and human rights.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNow that I work at Human Rights Watch, I continually revisit lessons learned from him -- including that human rights and civil rights are inextricably linked,\u201d she writes.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen Mr. Lewis was arrested in Washington for demonstrating against apartheid at the South African embassy and outside Sudan\u0027s embassy for protesting genocide in Darfur, he underscored this connection and showed us all that the fight for rights is global.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/17\/politics\/john-lewis-dead-at-80\/index.html\u0022\u003ERead Nicole Austin-Hillery\u2019s full op-ed on CNN.com \u0026gt; \u0026gt; \u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMore:\u003C\/strong\u003E Read additional tributes to John Lewis from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/07\/18\/john-lewis-death-politicians-react-368940\u0022\u003Etop US leaders\u003C\/a\u003E and presidents, leading \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/7\/19\/21330356\/activists-explain-how-to-carry-on-rep-john-lewis-legacy\u0022\u003EUS activists\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNESCO\/status\/1285244399727902721%5d\u0022\u003EUNESCO\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/amnestyusa\/status\/1284943573054566400\u0022\u003EAmnesty International\u003C\/a\u003E, Kenya President \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/statehousekenya\/status\/1284741303704707078\u0022\u003EUhuru Kenyatta\u003C\/a\u003E, France President \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmanuelMacron\/status\/1284424832059412480\u0022\u003EEmanuel Macron\u003C\/a\u003E, and Pakistani activist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/Malala\/status\/1284514579104636929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1284514579104636929%7Ctwgr%5E393535353b636f6e74726f6c\u0026amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.esquire.com%2Fnews-politics%2Fa33355783%2Fjohn-lewis-death-obama-biden-reactions%2F\u0022\u003EMalala Yousafzai\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]