They get on the buses and head south. And he’s beaten in Rock Hill, South Carolina, by a Klansman, man named Elwin Wilson, who, in 2009, moved by the election of Barack Obama, reaches out to John Lewis to say, “I’m the one who beat you in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in 1961, and I want to apologize.” And John accepted his apology, forgave him, and they became friendly. Again—biblical. Jesus told us to love our enemies. Who does that? Well, John Lewis did.
