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On the recordMarch 11, 2014
You know, there are many people who are acknowledged as heroes, and I should not be one of them. I was just here doing what I thought was right.
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James A. Lewis
Democratic · Illinois

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Lewis humbly reflects on his role in civil rights as just doing what was right.

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