John Lewis saw the signs. It was hard not to. This was in Atlanta a few weeks back, on a transformative weekend where 60,000 convened downtown on Jan. 21 to march for women’s rights and social justice and where a day later the Falcons battered the Packers to advance to the franchise’s second Super Bowl.
At the demonstration, the game and later at pep rallies and airport protests over changes to U.S. immigration policy, many signs sounded the same theme. Often, they simply read, “District 5.” The signs were unusual, but so were the circumstances. That’s the district Lewis represents in Congress.