Why doesn't John L Lewis get the same notoriety as MLK or Rosa Parks?

John Lewis, now a Georgia congressman, was the teenage son of Alabama sharecroppers when he first met Martin Luther King Jr., 60 years ago. One of the last surviving members of King’s inner circle, the 78-year-old Lewis is an icon of the movement. Here, he recalls what it was like to know King and to hear the messages that shape the world today.

Maybe cuz more people are gooing on vacation