The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday that it will honor the late civil rights leader John Lewis' life and legacy on a stamp in 2023.
who rode buses from the North to the South to challenge segregation, Lewis had his skull fractured after Alabama state troopers beat him on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma during the march for voting rights on March 7, 1965. He nonetheless remained a longtime advocate of nonviolent protest.
"Even in the face of hatred and violence, as well as some 45 arrests, Lewis remained resolute in his commitment to what he liked to call 'good trouble.'" The stamp will feature a photograph of Lewis taken by Marco Grob for the Aug. 26, 2013, issue of Time magazine.I'm honored that this new stamp will join Atlanta's John R. Lewis Post Office in honoring a great man and a guiding light for justice and moral clarity," Rep. Nikema Williams "Let it always remind us to get in the #GoodTrouble that Congressman Lewis taught us."
"Lewis’ face is the face of voting rights," Linda Earley Chastang, a former Lewis chief of staff who now serves as CEO of the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation,"Having it on a postage stamp honors Lewis and the movement which he led and, in the process, encourages voter participation, civic engagement, and getting into 'good trouble.'"
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