Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,914 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,914 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of John Lewis. What to even say about John Lewis? He’s such a well known figure and a hero to almost everyone who knows anything about civil rights history or contemporary liberalism. But let’s do the bio anyway. We shouldn’t forget that while many of the civil rights leaders came out of the middle and upper middle classes of Black America (there really wasn’t much of an upper class to speak of), Lewis did not. He grew up very …