Representative John Lewis in Conversation with Danny Lyon

July 21, 2016

July 15, 2016: Artist Danny Lyon speaks with Representative John Lewis about his lifelong advocacy of civil liberties and his current leadership on issues including gun control and voting rights. Lewis and Lyon first met in the 1960s, when Lewis was serving as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Lyon was a principal photographer of the Southern Civil Rights Movement and a staff member of SNCC.


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