AFGE Remembers Rep. Lewis as Icon, Civil Rights Hero
July 21, 2020
July 21, 2020
WASHINGTON, July 21 -- The American Federation of Government Employees issued the following statement by President Everett Kelley on the death of Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia:
"John Lewis grew up just 100 miles away from where I was born and raised in Alabama. He was 18 years older than me, and, as a child, he lived through the worst of the violence and injustice of the Jim Crow South. As an activist, a civil rights leader, and a lawmaker, he was a central force in the decades o . . .
"John Lewis grew up just 100 miles away from where I was born and raised in Alabama. He was 18 years older than me, and, as a child, he lived through the worst of the violence and injustice of the Jim Crow South. As an activist, a civil rights leader, and a lawmaker, he was a central force in the decades o . . .