Lewis is working to ensure that the hard truths about race in America and his own legacy aren’t erased.
One person who is well-versed in these kinds of racial politics is Representative John Lewis, whose career as a black civil-rights icon and renown as the last living speaker at the famed 1963 March on Washington are now the stuff of legend. Many of those ideas make the Trumpian vow to “Make America Great Again” sound more like a threat than a promise. Whether it’s an all-white breakout panel promoting unity, Representative Steve King laying out a defense of white supremacy on live television, or the routine dog-whistle criminalization of immigrants and black people that has been a Republican Party trademark for years, race and racism have been central to the theater in Cleveland. While Lewis saw his fight for civil rights turn to victory with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, voting rights in his home state of Georgia have been overhauled again.It’s not one of the official daily themes at the Republican National Convention, but at the heart of every pledge to make the country great or safe or “one” again has been the issue of race. presentation during Comic-Con International 2015 at the San Diego Convention Center on July 11, 2015. Lewis also led children on a march through the San Diego Convention Center. In 2015, Lewis attended Comic-Con International in San Diego in his own super hero uniform: The same trench coat he wore in 1965 during the march in Selma, Alabama, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The civil rights icon might not seem like a typical comic book hero, but "March: Book 3" became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was awarded the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now." At the time, Lewis said that he has been "in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life. In December 2019, Lewis announced he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
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