Linda Schaeffer / Associated Press (Sept. 3, 1986)
John Lewis, and his wife, Lillian Miles Lewis, led supporters from his campaign headquarters to a victory party after defeating Julian Bond in a runoff election for Georgia’s 5th Congressional District seat in Atlanta. He served in Congress from 1987 to 2020.
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As a nation, if we care for the Beloved Community, we must move our feet, our hands, our hearts, our resources to build and not tear down, to reconcile and not to divide, to love and not to hate.
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