SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. – The five-year anniversary of the death of Congressman and civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis came on Thursday with as many as a thousand rallies across the nation in big cities and small towns such as Sonoma. That’s where a crowd celebrated John Lewis National Day of Action.
Day of Action
What we know: — It was two hours of sights and sounds of and by those who did it in the 1960s. The rally led off with an iconic 1067 protest song by the Buffalo Springfield sung buy a local artist.
“Singing songs and carrying signs. Mostly say hooray for our side. It’s time we stop. Hey, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s goin’ down,” he sang.
More than 200 people participated. Bypassing cars, horns blaring, sound support. Booths offered information, souvenirs and political paraphernalia.
Civil rights legends
Lewis, a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr., was beaten and seriously injured on “Bloody Sunday” 60 years ago in Selma, Alabama trying to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. He would serve 34 years in Congress as a civil rights icon. …