When I was 19 years old I was a member of Young Democrats. On election night 1986 a friend and I went to the election headquarters of Wyche Fowler who was running for Senate against Republican incumbent Mac Mattingly. Fowler beat Mattingly that night. I was hanging out with a local TV reporter and his producer who were covering the election and an unassuming man came over to talk to the TV reporter. He was introduced to me as John Lewis, who had just won the election for Wyche Fowler's former Congressional seat. I congratulated Mr. Lewis and he said a few gracious words and then moved on around the room. I was an ignorant 19 year old. To me the Civil Rights Movement meant Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As a middle class white kid in the early 80's this is really all we were taught. If I would have know then what an impact John Lewis had on American history I probably wouldn't have been able to speak to him because he was such an imposing historical f...