“I feel lucky and blessed that I’m serving in the Congress… But there is a force that is trying to take us back to another time and another dark period,” warns congressman John Lewis.
Viewers learn the details of what happened before and after that iconic moment on the bridge in Selma, Alabama and how Lewis never lost hope.
Porter peppers the footage with politicians and civic leaders who eagerly attest to Lewis’s accomplishments.
Credit to Porter for also bringing up some of Lewis’s questionable strategies for winning his first congressional seat in Atlanta’s fifth district.
In this more honest doc, the audience learns how Lewis beat Julian Bond out of his Congressional seat by bringing up his rival’s personal foibles.
