Martin Luther King Jr., Trump was using his potent social media platform to hurl insults at a civil rights leader. All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Lewis was the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, by then already a central figure in the efforts of African Americans to secure civil rights. In 2015, Obama joined Lewis and other civil rights veterans for a 50th anniversary walk over the bridge where Lewis was wounded. “John Lewis is an icon of the civil rights movement who is fearless in the pursuit of justice and equality," tweeted Sen. Kamala Harris, the California Democrat.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 14, 2017 21:11 UTC