Today, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian medal that our country has, from President Barack Obama. ( full story here )
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Kyle, teary.
On March 7, 1965, as the leader of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) John Lewis was beaten to a bloody pulp... because he was a black man who wanted to walk across a bridge in Alabama. He still bears the scars.
Today, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian medal that our country has, from President Barack Obama. ( full story here )
Today, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian medal that our country has, from President Barack Obama. ( full story here )
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