The U.S. Postal Service says it will memorialize the late Rep. John Lewis with a new stamp next year.
who represented Georgia in Congress for decades, died of pancreatic cancer in July of 2020. He was 80.The longtime advocate of nonviolent protest had his skull fractured by Alabama state troopers while helping lead a march for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. on March 7, 1965.
He also helped organize sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, and was one of the original Freedom Riders, taking buses from the North to the Deep South to protest segregation at interstate bus terminals. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
Lewis credited King and Rosa Parks for motivating him to stand up against segregation and inequality. “I would ask my mother and my father and my grandparents, my great grandparents, ‘Why?’ And they would say, ‘That’s the way it is. Don’t get in the way. Don’t get in trouble,’” he recalled in . “The action of Rosa Parks and the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble — good trouble, necessary trouble.”John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation"Lewis’ face is the face of voting rights. Having it on a postage stamp honors Lewis and the movement which he led and, in the process, encourages voter participation, civic engagement, and getting into 'good trouble,'" Chastang said in a statement.
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