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With the deaths of John Lewis and C.T. Vivian, history seems to be sending a message

Posted on AllSides July 18th, 2020
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OPINION

Sometimes I wonder if history is trying to tell us something.

July 17, for example. In the morning came news of the death of C.T. Vivian. At night, the news that Rep. John R. Lewis (D-Ga.) passed away. Two men linked by decades of struggle, success and the deep truth that struggle itself is a kind of success. They met long ago, in the days of tiny television sets and black ribbon neckties and automobiles with fins stamped from sheet metal.

Around 1960, Vivian and Lewis were students together in...

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