In 2011, as part of a TV special, several 11Alive journalists brought their children to the legendary Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn district to interview civil rights icon John Lewis.
One of those children was 12-year-old Tyler, younger son of then-11Alive anchor Karyn Greer.
While Lewis told his story about getting beaten by a state trooper on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, while peacefully protesting for voting rights, Tyler asked a poignantly simple question: “Were you ever afraid of what was ahead?”…