The tributes are rolling in far and wide for John Lewis, the civil-rights leader and Democratic Congressman who died Friday at age 80. His life is worth celebrating for its own sake, but it’s all the more valuable for what it says about the progress of his country. Lewis was one of 10 children of a sharecropper in Alabama when state power enforced white supremacy in the American South. He dreamed of being a preacher, but he had a political awakening over civil rights while attending American Baptist Theological Seminary in...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 19, 2020 21:00 UTC