“To see who Lewis is, you must start on the family farm near Troy, Alabama, where he spent his childhood preaching to the chickens he cared for, talking his way out of picking cotton, and dreaming of a life beyond overheated Alabama fields and Jim Crow laws.”
John Lewis: Rooted Deep in Alabama Soil
Ernie Suggs, Tia Mitchell | Atlanta Journal Constitution | July 18, 2020 | 2,960 words