PBS has announced that they are airing a documentary about civil rights legend John Lewis in February. The hour-long documentary dubbed “John Lewis – Get in the Way” will cover his entire life. It will include his hardscrabble childhood in Alabama and his embrace of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s non-violent resistance to segregation as a teenager. Later, he became a student activist, taking part in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, the 1961 Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington and the Bloody Sunday march in 1965 where he was beaten in the skull by a state trooper in Selma.
Interviews from Lewis over a span of 20 years are included. Others interviewed in the documentary: Andrew Young, C.T. Vivian, Juanita Abernathy and Bernard Lafayette. Many of his Congressional colleagues appear as well, including Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
Lewis made headlines Saturday (January 14) for calling President-elect Donald Trump an “illegitimate president” and saying he would not attend the inauguration on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Trump struck back through twitter, saying Lewis was “all talk talk talk—no action or results.”
John Lewis – Get In The Way is scheduled to air on PBS Feb. 10th
