David Thompson, Cooperative Business Journal, Spring-Summer 2020
When civil rights icon and longtime public servant John Lewis passed away last month, he left a legacy that will forever inspire Americans to keep fighting for racial justice and equality— even when it means getting into what he called
“good trouble.” Representative Lewis will be remembered for his exceptional life. Born the son of a sharecropper, he became a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a 17-term U.S. congressman representing Atlanta. As a young activist in 1965, Lewis was brutally attacked as he and other civil rights leaders marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma, Alabama toward the state capitol of Montgomery in support of equal voting rights. Lewis bore the scars of a fractured skull from that march for his entire life—as does America.
