Meet the woman behind the Democratic Sit-In

June 23, 2016 23:23

Sitting on the plush blue carpet on the floor of the US House of Representatives, Rep. Katherine Clark remarked to Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon who helped lead the Selma-Montgomery marches in 1965, that this sit-in must surely be cushier than his first.

Indeed, he replied gravely with a hint of a smile, it was.

It was through Clarks actions that Lewis and dozens of other Democratic members found themselves sitting on the House floor protesting the GOPs refusal to hold votes on two gun control provisions in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. But though this was her first sit-in, Clark is no stranger to civil disobedience.

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