Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James was one of the thousands of people to take to social media late Friday night and on Saturday morning to mourn the loss of a Civil Rights icon, Congressman John Lewis, who passed away late last night at the age of 80.
Lewis served in the United States Congress since 1986 and he is most well known as one of the organizers of the march that led to ‘Bloody Sunday’ on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, in which local and state police in Alabama brutally beat the protesters on the bridge. James honored Lewis on Twitter and has also been reposting tributes of others for John Lewis on his Instagram Story.
Among one of LeBron’s many passions is history and his SpringHill Company has produced several pieces of content about the Civil Rights movement and the impact athletes at the time, such as Muhammad Ali, Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, had on those movements by using their increased stature.
