Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts

Monday, January 15, 2007

On the Occasion of Dr. King's Birth

This is again not a new picture, but it's one I felt was quite appropriate to post on Dr. King's birthday. Congressman John Lewis was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement, participated in the "Freedom Rides" of the 1960s, was at the head of the line on the march across the Pettus Bridge in Selma -- and is a man for whom I have a great deal of respect and admiration. Politically, we come from different sides of the aisle, but in terms of his activism there is no finer individual. (This picture was taken just after he had been a guest on my former boss' television show; not one of my better hair days!)