The Last Letter of John Lewis

On July 30, 2020, the day of his funeral, The New York Times published an essay by Congressman John Lewis — written just days before his death from pancreatic cancer. For sixty years, from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to the halls of Congress, Lewis had endured beatings, arrests, and death threats. His skull was fractured at twenty-five. He was jailed over forty times.…