To the end of his life, the civil rights hero and later congressman John Lewis remembered the half-mile walk from his family’s farm in rural Pike County, Alabama, to the Dunn’s Chapel School. There was no school bus for Black children; Lewis’ hike was short compared with the miles walked by many of his classmates.…
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