Aug 29, 2020 | ¡Presente!
by Max Hess My first encounter with John Lewis? When I moved from California to Georgia in the early 1990s. I had been living in Nancy Pelosi’s district and didn’t know to whose district I had moved. The LA uprising, following the police brutality against Rodney King,...
Aug 17, 2020 | ¡Presente!, Civil Rights
This reflection is part of FOR’s ¡Presente! series, honoring the lives of John Lewis, C.T. Vivian and other civil rights movement icons. by Jack Payden-Travers “You’re an embarrassment!” he shouted as he came across the street. “To your race” is the part of the phrase...
Aug 7, 2020 | ¡Presente!, Community
CHARLES RYAN ARMOUR: I grew up pretty sheltered just outside of Atlanta. I really didn’t know much about the civil rights movement until I got older. My mom is from Madison, Georgia, which is an hour away from Atlanta and my father was from Buckhead, which about 15...
Jul 28, 2020 | ¡Presente!, Community
LILIANE KSHENSKY BAXTER, PH.D. (LILI BAXTER): I remember first meeting John back in 1979. I had just started working at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, and he was with the Voter Education Project. I was called to a neighborhood-planning unit...
Jul 24, 2020 | ¡Presente!
SHEILA D. COLLINS: On July 18, 2020 we lost two valiant men—Rev. C.T. Vivian and representative John Lewis–icons of the civil rights movement, but so much more. Both men played leading roles in the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s, braving...
