When Rep. John Lewis was a teenager, he wrote to Martin Luther King Jr. — who sent back a roundtrip ticket to meet him.— NPR (@NPR) January 19, 2020
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