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JOHN LEWIS FINALLY GETS A FULL BIOGRAPHY


RAYMOND ARSENAULT’S ‘JOHN LEWIS: IN SEARCH OF THE BELOVED COMMUNITY’ DOCUMENTS
THE LIFE OF THE ‘CONSCIENCE OF CONGRESS’ IN DETAIL

Review by Brandon Tensley
January 26, 2024 at 6:30 a.m. EST
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) in the Cannon House Office Building on March 17, 2009.
(Jeff Hutchens/Getty Images)

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When John Lewis was just 9 years old, he and his cousin Della Mae hatched a plan
that they believed would get them to freedom. Fueled by their relatives’ stories
about the North, the two decided they would build a bus that would shuttle them
far away from Alabama — from the domain of Jim Crow. “We were going to saw down
a tree,” Lewis recounted years later. “Somehow we were going to make it into a
bus. And then we were going to roll right out of Alabama, leave the place behind
for good and forever.”




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