John Lewis' Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It's Under Attack.
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A bill to restore the Voting Rights Act he championed has been sitting on Mitch McConnell’s desk for 225 days.
Ari Berman Senior ReporterBio
On March 1, as he was battling stage 4 cancer, John Lewis returned to Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march, when he was brutally beaten marching for voting rights. “We must go out and vote,” he told a crowd of thousands on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, “like we’ve never, ever voted before.” He urged the people gathered there to vote in order to “redeem the soul of America.”
The vote was personal for Lewis, who passed away late Friday evening at 80. He called it “precious, almost sacred.” He was more responsible than just about anyone for the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965........................
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John Lewis speaks during the Annual Bloody Sunday March across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 1, 2020.JOSHUA LOTT/AFP via Getty Images
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since the Nixon administration. It's the only way they can win: Cheating! 
