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The Right Way to Honor John Lewis: Restore and Extend the Voting Rights Act
Today’s activists are picking up the baton with the kind of courage, persistence, and belief in disruption Lewis showed. Let’s not settle for a bridge name.
Jeanne Theoharis
Jeanne Theoharis is distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is the author of numerous books and articles on the civil rights and Black Power movements, the politics of race and education, social welfare, and civil rights in post-9/11 America, including the award-winning "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Park" and, most recently, "A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History."
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