"Why don't we just sit down and stay a while." [View all]

[KentuckyWoman]

https://www.ajc.com/news/national-govt--politics/the-story-behind-the-photo-john-lewis-the-atlanta-airport/jzNIhXRtbYgPbEBv8gfBcN/

I shot it with my iPhone late Saturday night, while sitting across from the 76-year-old Democratic congressman in a drab waiting room at the Atlanta airport. Wearing a dark suit and blue tie, the civil rights icon was patiently sitting in one of those hard metal airport seats, looking off to his right. His hands were clasped in his lap, his fingers laced

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A federal immigration official declined to tell Lewis how many people were being held at the Atlanta airport before retreating back into his office. Soft-spoken and resolute, Lewis turned to a gathering crowd of immigration advocates and attorneys and said almost in a whisper: “Why don’t we just sit down and stay a while.”

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