John Lewis Tweets/Pics~51 years ago today, we said a prayer before setting out from Brown Chapel

[Cha]

John Lewis
✔ ‎‎@repjohnlewis
51 years ago today, we said a prayer before setting out from Brown Chapel to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
5:36 AM - 7 Mar 2016
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John Lewis
✔ ‎‎@repjohnlewis
At the apex of the bridge, high above the Alabama River, Hosea Williams asked if I could swim. I said no. #Selma51
5:42 AM - 7 Mar 2016
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John Lewis
✔ ‎‎@repjohnlewis
I was hit in the head by a State Trooper. I thought I saw death. I thought I was going to die. #Selma51
6:18 AM - 7 Mar 2016
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Ari Berman ‎‎@AriBerman
51 years ago today: Bloody Sunday, most important march in civil rights history. Led to Voting Rights Act #Selma51
4:49 AM - 7 Mar 2016
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MOre Tweets & Pics~ http://theobamadiary.com/2016/03/07/tweets-of-the-day-48/#comments

[font color=blue]Hillary's Group~Mahalo~Yes it brings tears~

50th Anniversary~

[Cha]

1. KICK for African American Voting Rights!

[lostnfound]

44. Absolutely.

Thank God their voices are getting heard.

[Lucinda]

2. Thank you Cha.

[Cha]

5. You are so Welcome, Lucinda~ Thank you for being around!

[sheshe2]

3. The long road to justice.

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The Long Road

A half century ago, Martin Luther King, Jr., receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, in Oslo, spoke of the “creative battle” that twenty-two million black men and women in the United States were waging against “the starless midnight of racism.” A few months later, in March, 1965, that battle came to Selma, Alabama, the birthplace of the White Citizens’ Council. The issue was voting rights. As King pointed out, there were more blacks in jail in the city than there were on the voting rolls. James Baldwin, who was among the marchers, had written, “I could not suppress the thought that this earth had acquired its color from the blood that had dripped down from these trees.” The series of marches there––the first was Bloody Sunday, a bloody encounter with a racist police force armed with bullwhips and cattle prods; the last, the fifty-four-mile procession from Selma to the State House, in Montgomery––pushed Lyndon Johnson to send voting-rights legislation to Congress. The nonviolent discipline of the marchers, the subject of a new film by Ava DuVernay, and portrayed here in Steve Schapiro’s photographs of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, became such a resonant chapter in the black freedom struggle that Barack Obama, in 2007, went to Selma to speak, at Brown Chapel, just weeks after declaring for the Presidency. Almost eight years later, as Selma is being commemorated, demonstrators against racial injustice are employing as a despairing slogan the last words of Eric Garner, an African-American man on Staten Island in the grip of a police choke hold: “I can’t breathe.”

http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/long-road

[Cha]

7. Such an incredibly long, winding road to justice, she.. and not done yet.

John Lewis and all the Civil Rights Activists and those who followed are to be commended. Not scorned and thrown under the bus because they choose to vote for whom they want.


Pretty Foot ‎@PrettyFootWoman
Congressman John Lewis
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=24562#top

Thank you for the link~ Compelling photo of the March~

[sheshe2]

8. Hey

hugs! gotta go.

[Surya Gayatri]

4. Thanks for compiling, Cha...SO evocative!

[Cha]

9. 51 Years ago, Surya.. and here we are on the eve of a Democratic primary,

in Michigan and Mississippi, where I think the African American vote is the huge difference.. that helps immeasurably to keep our Democracy.

Thank you so much!

[riversedge]

6. Thank you John--and all others who have and are making equality possible.

[Cha]

10. So Thankful to all The Civil Rights Activists, rivers!

Mahalo~

[Tanuki]

11. Kicking in honor of the heroes who put it all on the line, some of whom like John Lewis suffered

grievous injuries and others who were murdered, so that we could all enjoy full citizenship and the right to vote. Please, let us all be inspired to carry the torch into the future and not allow erosion of voting rights and civil rights for all!

[Cha]

19. Sweet Tribute, Tanuki~Thank you!

John Lewis
✔ ‎‎@repjohnlewis
I had a concussion there at the bridge, and I've never been able to recall how any of us made it back alive #Selma51
6:38 AM - 7 Mar 2016
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[William769]

12. Which one is Bernie?

[msanthrope]

13. Yesterday, Bernie's campaign tweeted a pic from the movie "Selma" in tribute, by mistake.

http://theslot.jezebel.com/twitter-account-for-bernie-sanders-confuses-the-movie-s-1763339321

[Cha]

17. Dunno.. I do know John Lewis didn't see him.

John Lewis
✔ ‎‎@repjohnlewis
I had a concussion there at the bridge, and I've never been able to recall how any of us made it back alive #Selma51
6:38 AM - 7 Mar 2016
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Mahalo William

[msanthrope]

14. kick and rec... for truth. nt

[Cha]

18. Mahalo msanthrope~

[brer cat]

15. Yes, we remember.

The man standing in the center of the first photograph is Andrew Young, another Civil Rights hero, who became the first AA elected to Congress from GA after reconstruction. Rev. Young was a leader in the movement to bring the Olympics to Atlanta in 1996, and he chose to carry the torch across the Pettus Bridge accompanied by Alabama school children, one of the most memorable moments of the torch run. He said "We couldn't have gone to Atlanta with the Olympic Games if we hadn't come through Selma a long time ago." Those who were there know the power the Pettus Bridge represents, and the least we owe them is to keep the memory alive.

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Thank you for this thread, Cha! K&R

[Cha]

20. Ohhhh.. your post brought tears, brer cat!

So Poignant. Mahalo~

[DemonGoddess]

16. K&R!

A powerful reminder of what is at stake.

[Cha]

31. Well said, DemonGoddess!

Really.. I don't think anyone has made this point and it's so vital.

[sufrommich]

21. Very powerful,Cha.Thank you for posting these.

Does anyone know who the lady in the wheelchair holding Pres.Obama's hand is?

[Cha]

23. I was just looking @ that too and wondering.. so I looked it up...

Amelia Boynton Robinson was beaten unconscious and left for dead at the Edmund Pettus Bridge 50 years ago. At 103, she is a living legend, the "Queen Mother" of the civil rights movement. Saturday, she crossed the bridge again, this time in a wheelchair with President Obama holding her hand.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/us/selma-beyond-the-headlines/

You're Welcome, Su.. they are so powerful and just look at how strong the AA voting block is today.

[sufrommich]

24. Oh my God. "beaten and left for dead"

Thanks for the info,Cha.

[Cha]

37. What an incredibly strong woman.. imagine how she felt 50 years later.. making that

march with a Black President.

[Thinkingabout]

22. Now this my friends is a powerful post, these are fighters who

Stood up for the simple right of every citizen to register to vote. Just think, 1919 women was given the right to vote and 1965 the Voters Rights Act was passed. What a privilege, one denied for many years. A special thanks for the fighters, it was not easy.

Thanks for those who are exercising this right to voice their opinion.

[Cha]

27. These Civil Rights Leaders knew they should have the Right to Vote and they went for it..

with all their heart and soul, Thinking.

Their courage and strength is an inspiration to us all.

Thank you~

[Thinkingabout]

28. Exactly, working in some of the precincts I started to notice a higher turnout in Blach Females

usually with young children with them, hopefully to follow in the future. We are seeing the fruits of the fight made for the Voters Rights Act.

[Cha]

29. We have been seeing the fruition of the Voters Rights Act. And, Black Women are definitely

the highest percentage of voters

How about that?! Thank you, T!

[ismnotwasm]

25. K&R

[Cha]

32. Mahalo, ism~

[Gothmog]

26. John Lewis is an American Icon

[Cha]

33. That and more!

[Fla Dem]

30. After 51 years, much has been accomplished, but we should be so much further along.

So much bigotry, hatred and discrimination still.

[Cha]

34. Yes, "The arc of justice bends slowly.. ", Fla Dem.. Way too slow.

[Starry Messenger]

35. K&R

[Cha]

36. Mahalo, Starry~

[wildeyed]

38. Beautiful post!

Thanks you for this.

[Cha]

40. Mahalo to you, wildeyed!

[fleabiscuit]

39. Good god... Kick

[Cha]

46. Mahalo flea~

[fleabiscuit]

47. Hi Cha!

[Tarheel_Dem]

41. I love John Lewis. He's a walking, talking history lesson, and he actually cares about people.

[DesertRat]

42. k&r

[UtahLib]

43. We must NEVER forget.

[oasis]

45. Inspiring photos.