Opinion: In memory of Congressman John Lewis

Guest Columnist
Daphene R. McFerren
Daphene R. McFerren is executive director of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis.
In 1972 in Fayette County, John Lewis and Julian Bond passionately urged African Americans to vote. Attendees that night also saw that both Lewis, the son of sharecroppers, and Bond were just ordinary people intermingling, like “home folks,” with rural activists.
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