John Lewis and the 102-year-old Arizona delegate

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Greg Bluestein ‏@bluestein 10h10 hours ago
When John Lewis met the 102-year-old delegate at the DNC http://wp.me/p3Xdqv-6T9 #gapol



Jerry Emmett, the 102-year-old honorary chair of Arizona’s delegation, wanted to meet the Atlanta civil rights icon. So Arizona delegate Janie Hydrick walked her, arm-in-arm, to meet Lewis.

Lewis had heard Emmett’s show-stopping announcement of Arizona’s delegate tally at Tuesday’s roll-call vote, and he immediately embraced her. He told her: “I’m very proud of you.”

“It was a moment that will always stay in my heart,” Hydrick told us. “Jerry has been an Arizona icon for Democratic values for decades, and I have revered Congressman Lewis since his courageous fight for human and civil rights in the ’60s. To see them together, physically embracing as their values and courage had been interlocked for so long renewed my commitment to the struggle.”

“He has done so much to help do away with the tensions between Americans,” Emmett said.

“She cried and I cried with her,” said Lewis. “It’s very moving to see people who have lived so many years and to see that their hopes and their dreams, their aspirations, are realized.”


read: http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/07/28/when-john-lewis-met-the-102-year-old-delegate-at-the-dnc/

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1. K&R!

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2. K & R

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3. Beautiful.

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4. Brilliant! That's our Democracy! John Lewis and Jerrr Emmett!