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Related: About this forumJohn Lewis and the 102-year-old Arizona delegate
Greg Bluestein ?@bluestein 10h10 hours agoWhen John Lewis met the 102-year-old delegate at the DNC http://wp.me/p3Xdqv-6T9 #gapol
Jerry Emmett, the 102-year-old honorary chair of Arizonas delegation, wanted to meet the Atlanta civil rights icon. So Arizona delegate Janie Hydrick walked her, arm-in-arm, to meet Lewis.
Lewis had heard Emmetts show-stopping announcement of Arizonas delegate tally at Tuesdays roll-call vote, and he immediately embraced her. He told her: Im very proud of you.
It was a moment that will always stay in my heart, Hydrick told us. Jerry has been an Arizona icon for Democratic values for decades, and I have revered Congressman Lewis since his courageous fight for human and civil rights in the 60s. To see them together, physically embracing as their values and courage had been interlocked for so long renewed my commitment to the struggle.
He has done so much to help do away with the tensions between Americans, Emmett said.
She cried and I cried with her, said Lewis. Its very moving to see people who have lived so many years and to see that their hopes and their dreams, their aspirations, are realized.
read: http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/07/28/when-john-lewis-met-the-102-year-old-delegate-at-the-dnc/
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John Lewis and the 102-year-old Arizona delegate (Original Post)
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Jul 2016
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DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)1. K&R!
sheshe2
(83,633 posts)3. Beautiful.
Cha
(296,762 posts)4. Brilliant! That's our Democracy! John Lewis and Jerrr Emmett!