The final thoughts of the late Rep. John Lewis are set to be published this summer.
Carry On, with a foreword by civil rights activist Andrew Young, will become available to the public on July 13, Grand Central Publishing announced on Tuesday. The book will contain Lewis’s “memories, beliefs, and advice … as a message to the generations to come,” according to a summary from the New York-based publishing company.
“I consider it one of the great privileges of my professional life to have been able to work with this extraordinary man in memorializing his last words for posterity,” Young said in a statement, according to multiple outlets.
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Lewis decided to write Carry On through multiple conversations with his editor, Gretchen Young, of no relation to Andrew Young, after Lewis’s cancer diagnosis, according to the Associated Press.
A civil rights leader throughout the 1960s, Lewis was elected to represent Georgia‘s 5th Congressional District in the House in 1986. Lewis served from 1987 until his death on July 17, 2020.
Lewis’s name has been invoked by voting rights activists, particularly those critical of the new legislation in Georgia, which will impose voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, give state officials the authority to make changes to county elections boards, authorize the use of ballot drop boxes, and make it a crime for politically affiliated persons to approach voters in line within 150 feet of a polling place to give them food and water.
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President Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass S.4263, known as the “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act,” to counteract the Georgia law, which he condemned as a voter suppression tactic.
“[The Georgia voting law] is Jim Crow in the 21st century. It must end,” Biden said. “We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act. I once again urge Congress to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to make it easier for all eligible Americans access the ballot box and prevent attacks on the sacred right to vote.”
