When Rep. John Lewis was a teenager, he wrote to Martin Luther King Jr. — who sent back a roundtrip ticket to meet him. At 18, Lewis took a bus 50 miles to meet him. He walked into King's office. "And Dr. King said, 'Are you the boy from Troy?' "

When Rep. John Lewis was a teenager, he wrote to Martin Luther King Jr. — who sent back a roundtrip ticket to meet him.

At 18, Lewis took a bus 50 miles to meet him. He walked into King's office.

"And Dr. King said, 'Are you the boy from Troy?' " https://t.co/GdWbhTlxOl

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