Sunday, June 26, 2016

The woman behind the Democratic sit-in

Representative Katherine Clark

It was through Clark’s actions that John Lewis, the civil rights icon who helped lead the Selma-Montgomery marches in 1965, and dozens of other Democratic members found themselves sitting on the House floor protesting the GOP’s refusal to hold votes on two gun-control provisions in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

http://time.com/4380310/house-sitin-congress-gun-control-katherine-clark/?xid=newsletter-brief