John Lewis, the conscience of the nation
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Jan 08, 2020
2 minutes
My favorite picture of John Lewis is a mugshot.
It's from Mississippi in 1961, one of the earliest of an eventual 40-plus arrests he would undergo in the cause of freedom. Facing the state penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, and the many hells that portended for a black man in the Jim Crow South, Lewis looked into the camera ... and smiled.
He smirked, actually, as if
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