Bloody Sunday | Rep. John Lewis remembers the fateful day in Selma 

Time to change the name of the bridge to John Lewis, an honorable leader.

RIP Congressman John Lewis. 😢

Peacefully marching and then the police violently arrest them all.

I grew up thinking about some of the others we would see in the pictures. Like walking with MLK and marching at the front of the Selma march...who are those people? and then you say OH that Congressman is the same man? Wow, really was there on the frontlines for America. Living out his mission and really invoking change! What a life, RIPower! John Lewis!

RIP John Lewis (1940-2020).

Statue for a KKK grand wizard, rich slave trader, Confederate officier. Erected in *_1970_* in Nashville TN - 2 years after Dr. King was shot. 18 minutes into the speech (see link in other comment). Jeffery Robinson: "So I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and what greets me as a citizen of Tennessee when I go to my state capitol in Nashville where my grandparents lived: This is what I see. *_Nathan Bedford Forest,_* and you can see Confederate States Army lieutenant general and his birth date and his death date. There is nothing else on this monument except the fact that he was a Confederate States general. Well, he made a _fortune in Memphis as a slave trader,_ and he was the _original grand wizard of the KKK._ He led a _Confederate massacre_ of black soldiers and white soldiers, American soldiers during the Civil War. This monument wasn't put up in 1865 or 1866 with people saying, he's such a hero, we have to recognize him; this monument was built in 1970, two years after Martin Luther King was shot in the neck just down the road from Nashville, Tennessee."

To God be the glory!!! We shall rise up!!!! The pain is ending!!! In Jesus Name!! The Great I Am ! Amen

Some brave people had to brave the grave injustice. John Lewis, rest in peace!

RIP Sir. No one is perfect, but it looks to me you made strives for others.

Good man start GOOD TROUBLE👍🗽

So very wrong on so many levels what happened this day! I was a young child did not know this happened until taught in college. RIP Senator. We need more human beings in this world like you for sure! 🙏🏻💞

I remember seeing the footage of this on the news when I was 10 in 1965. My father was sitting behind me on the sofa and I was on the floor. I asked him "what country is this in?" I got no response so I turned and looked at him and saw him crying as he told me it was in my own country.

Rest in peace, your work was not in vain and we will prove it!

R.I.P. Mr. Lewis

Social media has a lot of people feeling very brave and I would love to see the disrespectful comments about this great man have that same energy in real life but I know that isn't going to happen rest well

You were a true hero to the Civil Rights movement. R.I.P John Lewis.

Too bad this doesn't happen to people who deserve it.

To see the actual footage...wow.

Rest in peace John Lewis. You went up against Satan and lived to talk about it. God was with you carrying you all the way. Although there was a chance to be maimed or even killed you remained steadfast. You are a true hero❤

Rip. Man we need way more people like him in congress, instead of the buffoons we have now.

Wow absolutely heartbreaking. The police still haven't learnt lessons from the past

God bless them! And god bless dear Joan Baez!

This really helped on my homework thx👍

I’m 52 years old and never knew about this event. It was not taught in school. Not even in college. Thank you for sharing. Very courageous man Senator Lewis and the group of non-violent protestors standing up for inequality and equal rights, as it should be and then to be brutally attacked is very heartbreaking to say the least. 😞

This was left out of our history lessons in grade school, as was many political events that has effected the existence of black people in America. Many learned in college or through great produced stories like this.

I’m 4 months late but RIP. I’m glad that you and all the other civil rights activist made out so a black young man like me can live without a lot of worry🙏🏾😔

Rest in peace bruh

Man ya was causing trouble even in the 60s lol

Rest in Paradise to a true American pioneer, Brother John Lewis!

Rest in Love, most respect

They were defenseless but they beat and killed them 😢

John Lewis was one of the most liberal and progressive politicians in politics. His godless views on marriage does NOT represent the overall majority of Black people in America. To equate homosexuality with the Civil Rights Movement is ridiculous and an insult to those who fought and sacrificed for the opportunity for us as Black people to be free.

Well, I never read this in any of my history books growing up. So many things are Not in school history books.

26 minutes into the speech (see other comment for link): Edmund Pettus was, the grand [? dragon ? wizard - it was off mic] of the Alabama KKK. And that bridge was dedicated not in 1865, or 1870 *_but in 1940. _* [If i go after the footage, they haven't changed the effing name of the bridge in 2020 !]

Thankyou so much Congressman Lewis for your immeasurable contributions to a better society

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Merci Martin Luther king! Pour cette belle leçon

America?? Or Amerikkka?

This is so horrible so most Unforgettable in my heart and intge history books of mankind. So greatly appreciated and missed, but Never forgotten.

Sad. Sad they can't see everyone as equal to vote and have so much anger built up for the opposite race.

2:38-2:44

Why the 8 dislikes

Why this history is never shown….

Its 2020 and nothing has changed .

Jim Clark was there best asset. If not for his actions the movement would have faded into obscurity. Like it did in Georgia.

"They not gonna kill Goldberg and The Undertaker". U sho the fuck right bcuz that would have started something. Now the midcard dying, now that's more negotiable. Lol

Hm.

John Lewis was a coward

Dumb

Funny how all the folk beating John Lewis, was a Democrat. RIP brother. May your memory be not forgotten like the great Booker T. Washington has been. 🪦

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Brilliant political theater. They saw Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark as the foil against media lambs. The prospect of violence is what was needed to advance the cause.