The John Lewis Legacy: Protecting the Right to be Free from Racist Policing

“One can only imagine how different the law would look today, had Congress heeded the young John Lewis’ demand, in 1963, to adopt “Title III.” How prescient, and wise, the young man was,” writes Professor Margaret Burnham in a piece that illuminates an early contribution John Lewis made, long before he was a legislator, to the effort to pass laws controlling racist police violence. The John Lewis Legacy: Protecting the Right to be Free from Racist Policing