“Since he was a teenager, John Lewis has put his life, his comfort, and his health on the line for this country.”
John Lewis is 10 years younger than my grandmother, who also was at the March on Washington, was also at the Freedom Rides, who left her three daughters at home when she was in her 20s to go down to Mississippi.
One of the things I would point out is that when you look back at the history of the civil rights movement, what’s interesting is that in the gauzy nostalgic film of history, we tend to lump everybody together. It’s all Dr. King and then these lieutenants to Dr. King and the March on Washington. But, of course, it was a movement that was filled with a huge diversity of ideas and tactics and methodologies and kinds of people who didn’t always get along.
To me, the issue of immigrants, in this country and internationally, feels like it has a lot of that urgency right now in terms of the way that we’re treating people and the lack of humanity from government actors. But it’s tricky, because black Americans in the 1960s who were facing racism were citizens. No one was questioning, or should have been questioning, their presence here.
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