John Lewis1940 - 2020
An Obituary
Like most of the readers of this blog, I grew up during the civil rights movement in the early '60s. I had a limited idea and few opinions about what was going on in the Deep South and big cities like Detroit, D.C, and L.A. The Watts riots occurred in 1965 while I was in basic training at Ft. Ord, CA. I grew up in ex-pat neighborhoods in SE Asia until almost junior high school age. We lived in the "burbs" of San Francisco and Los Angeles during junior high and high school so I had no concept of what people like John Lewis were going through. This obituary tells a story about a great man.
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