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John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Caribbean Diaspora

  John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Caribbean Diaspora (An essay) Ambassador Curtis A. Ward (18 July 2020) —There is a lot I could say about John Lewis, and volumes have already been written, and will be written, about his role as a civil rights icon and warrior. His life-long struggle for freedom from oppression, from his early years as a young man in the civil rights movement, up until his death as a US congressman, to effect changes in policies in the United States...