Martin Luther King III invited mourners in Selma, Alabama, to imagine the welcome his parents and other civil rights leaders gave Rep. John Lewis on the other side.
to a man they knew both as a civil rights hero and a kind human being who wrote letters of encouragement to their children.
JoAnn Pittman grew up in Montgomery during the Bus Boycott. Her parents attended meetings and rode in carpools; as a 6-year-old, the Rev. Martin Luther King warmly took her hand when she felt shy around him in a children's receiving line. It was also the chapel that became a makeshift hospital after a posse of white law enforcement officers beat the marchers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Members of the mob tried to ride their horses up the same steps an honor guard carried Lewis' body on Saturday.
The future of that law was on the minds of mourners at a 90-minute service for Lewis in Brown Chapel on Saturday evening. Several speakers called for Congress to honor Lewis' memory and restore portions of the Voting Rights Act struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013, out of a case that emerged in Shelby County, Alabama.Martin Luther King III also paid tribute to Southall and hundreds of Selma activists who marched to Edmund Pettus Bridge and beyond in March 1965.
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