President Obama embraces Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) after Lewis introduced the President at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in March 2015.
Lewis is the sole living member of the ‘Big Six’ organizers of the March on Washington and at this point really the only living high profile survivor of the flood tide era of the Civil Rights Movement. This is partly a testament to longevity but also the fact that Lewis was so young at the time. As for President Obama, as I’ve written at other times, we will not see his likes again.
