Justice and Good Trouble

This essay examines the life and leadership of the late congressman John Lewis as it illustrates key dimensions of American history, including slavery, the exploitative sharecropping economy, the protests of the Civil Rights Movement and student activism. This embodiment of the American experience r...

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Main Author: Franklin, Robert Michael 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2021
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-32
Further subjects:B Slavery
B Civil Rights Movement
B public intellectuals
B sharecropping
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Summary:This essay examines the life and leadership of the late congressman John Lewis as it illustrates key dimensions of American history, including slavery, the exploitative sharecropping economy, the protests of the Civil Rights Movement and student activism. This embodiment of the American experience rendered him a unique national leader and conscience of the Congress. Lewis is presented as fulfilling key rhetorical dimensions of the public intellectual as moralist for the nation.
ISSN:2163-3088
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2021.50