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For the Fourth of July, USA Today asked people around the country what democracy means to them and what they are doing to keep it. Reporter Deborah Barfield Berry included John Suttles among them.
The piece recounts his march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 and the bloodstained Army jacket, loaned to him by his uncle that day, that he later donated to the National Park Service interpretive center in Selma.
It describes how he now speaks about voting at community events, including a Juneteenth panel in Johns Creek, Georgia, and a virtual panel for the federal Election Assistance Commission, and quotes him on his habit of talking about the vote with anyone who will listen.
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These people still believe in democracy (little d) and are working to keep it.
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USA Today's Deborah Barfield Berry opens this report on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act with John Suttles, who marched with Lewis out of Selma in 1965 and is frustrated that a bill…
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The City of Johns Creek held its first MLK Unity Breakfast on January 15 at Taylor Lodge at St. Benedict's Catholic Church. John Suttles, a Johns Creek resident, gave the closing remarks.
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