John Lewis “stood for everything that is good.”

Myrlie Evers remembered Congressman John Lewis as a fearless civil rights leader who “stood for everything that is good, everything that is strong and everything that is merciful.”

News, Civil RIghts, Mississippi NewsKatherine MitchellJuly 20, 2020Mississippi Center for Investigative ReportingMyrlie Evers, Civil Rights, John Lewis, Congressman John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King, King, Freedom Riders, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Bloody Sunday, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Jeff Steinberg