he's selling happiness and hopefullness one bag at a time.”
4. stick around -brotherkenzie
“and baby you could be the one for me
hand in hand, feeling free
if i could love you
more than myself, maybe.
what’s next? bourbon please
ain't you a little drunk for these?
just go away, just go away”
5. too late -the happy fits
i could be whole if i didn't know
about the birdies and the bees and the bushes
eighteen came around and it was somewhat malicious
everybody loses control
i'm a little scared of my soul”
6. best tears -the happy fits
“please, show us and tell, how your life's not going straight to hell
all those jeepers and creepers wanna sit in your head
But fall out of line and you'll be shot and dead”
7. favorite poison -fuller
"you're a bad habit, and i'm a bad boyfriend
i’m a drug addict, you're my favorite poison.”
8. sisters -saint motel
“you showed me marijuana
and what good rock n roll could be
and though i never knew
i was so sure i’d always count on you”
9. like or like like -miniature tigers
“i climbed up your front porch
and i doorbell ditched ya
and i felt so bad, couldn't cope to what i did
so i laughed myself sick all the way to my car
tell me how you feel about me? do you like or like, like me?”
10. portland -bowling shoes
“haven't you seen
my bad habits lately
i've been naive
and i've been feeling hazy, maybe
i've barely left my room in a week
the thought of doing so scares me
i wish it could be easy
To fall asleep completely
she said to me as she sparks a pipe in the sunlight
as she reclines, she tells me I'll be alright”
11. 2023 -blue rain boots
“is that the sun i see or am i just being greedy
gonna change my ways so i'm not so fucking needy
cant keep feeding in to the way that you need me
so look around what have we found
search the end of the world up and down
it's okay, when we find our way, it’s gonna be okay”
12. Arms tonite -mother mother
“and hey, you, don't you think it's kinda cute
that i died right inside your arms tonight
that I'm fine even after I have died
because it was in your arms I died
I cry in the afterlife
i cry hard because I have died
and you're alive
i try to escape afterlife
i try hard to get back inside
your arms alive”
Also we recently adopted this kitten at home, I found him alone at a parking lot.. it was dangerous and he was meowing a lot so I had to take him in. This pic makes me laugh so much!
Rep. John Lewis talking with a Somali child during Operation Restore Hope, 1993 (National Archives ID 6508426)
President Barack Obama embracing Rep. John Lewis, 3/7/2015 (National Archives ID 157649496)
Photograph of the two-minute warning on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965. (National Archives ID 16899041)
Statement of John Lewis regarding Selma’s “Bloody Sunday,” March 8, 1965. (Records of the FBI, National Archives)
John Lewis with President Obama and others at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma March (National Archives ID 157649500)
We Remember Civil Rights Legend John Lewis
There is perhaps no single figure whose own life and career embodies the promise, success, and continued challenges of civil rights for Black Americans than John Lewis. We mourn this tremendous loss and look back on his incredible history through our holdings dating back to the early 1960s, including the March on Washington and the “Bloody Sunday” Selma March.
Hear Rep. Lewis describe his meeting with JFK before the March on Washington (from his Oral History for the JFK Library).
It was in this meeting… somehow out of the blue A. Philip Randolph says something like, “Mr. President, the black masses are restless,” in his baritone voice. “The black masses are restless, and we’re going to march on Washington.” And you could tell by the body language of President Kennedy, he just sort of moved and twisted and turned in his chair, he didn’t necessarily like what he heard. And he said, “Mr. Randolph, if you bring a lot of people to Washington, won’t there be a crisis, disorder, chaos? And we would never be able to get a civil rights bill through the Congress.” And Mr. Randolph responded and said, “Mr. President, this will be an orderly, peaceful, nonviolent protest.” And President Kennedy sort of said, “Well, I think we’re going to have problems. But we all have problems, and we can solve those problems.”
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See John Lewis in The March (the film documenting the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, restored by the National Archives Motion Picture Preservation Lab). At 23 he was the youngest speaker that day and was the last remaining living speaker.
See also:
FBI Case File #44-28492: Bloody Sunday, Rediscovering Black History blog post by archivist Dr. Tina Ligon
Selma, Edmund Pettus Bridge FBI Case File, Rediscovering Black History blog post by archives specialist Netisha Currie
Testimony of John Lewis in Court Case resulting from 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero introduces Rep. John Lewis at National Archives event celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington
Video: John Lewis on Rights and Justice in America