Few people remember the former student leader of SNCC and Georgia congressman John Lewis’s speech from the March on Washington rally, which took place 60 years ago today. Like most speeches delivered that day they were eclipsed by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visions of a dream that “one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black…
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