Rep. John Lewis was known as the 'conscience of the Congress.' He was arrested more than 40 times protesting segregation. He took part in lunch counter sit-ins; the Freedom Rides — and at 23, he was the youngest speaker at the March on Washington.
"And they weren't either," Shuttlesworth said.Lewis was arrested more than 40 times protesting segregation. He was involved in lunch counter sit-ins; freedom rides on interstate buses; and he was the youngest speaker at"We're tired of being beaten by policeman. We're tired of seeing our people locked up in jail over and over again," the 23-year-old Lewis said in a speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
He stuck by that creed even in the most brutal of circumstances. Most notably, as a co-leader of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march. "They came forward, beating us with nightsticks, tramping us with horses, releasing the tear gas," Lewis recounted."I was hit in the head by a state trooper with a night stick. My legs went from under me. I thought I was going to die."
"My parents would be back at home praying for him," Tyner said. "Now to see the results of all that. My parents have gone on, but if there is any way they are looking down — all the ancestors — they are very proud of him today."Lewis served on the Atlanta city council before being elected to Congress in 1986. He rose in Democratic Party ranks to senior chief deputy whip, and became known as"the conscience of the Congress.
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