1.0Fair Fighthttps://fairfight.comclient_loginhttps://fairfight.com/author/client_login/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="p6OGY9pGo6"><a href="https://fairfight.com/republicans-expressing-sadness-over-congressman-lewiss-death-are-currently-working-to-undo-his-lifes-work/">Republicans Expressing Sadness over Congressman Lewis’s Death are Currently Working to Undo His Life’s Work</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://fairfight.com/republicans-expressing-sadness-over-congressman-lewiss-death-are-currently-working-to-undo-his-lifes-work/embed/#?secret=p6OGY9pGo6" width="600" height="338" title="“Republicans Expressing Sadness over Congressman Lewis’s Death are Currently Working to Undo His Life’s Work” — Fair Fight" data-secret="p6OGY9pGo6" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); </script> On August 6, 1965, just 153 days after John Lewis was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. The televised beating of young demonstrators including Lewis, then age 25, was the impetus for President Lyndon Johnson to push the Voting Rights Act through Congress and get it on […]