We love the National Civil Rights Museum. So we tend to like causes that benefit the NCRM. And this is a good one.
Earlier this month — on January 7th, National Bobblehead Day — the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum (located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) released a pair of these mini-statues honoring the late, great John Lewis. One presents Lewis as he appeared in the 1960s, a young civil rights activist and leader. (Lewis was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966.) The other is Lewis as U.S. Congressman, where he represented Georgia from 1987 until his death in July 2020.
The Memphis connection? Ten percent of all sales from the Lewis bobbleheads will be donated to the National Civil Rights Museum and its continued mission, one that echoes the life of John Lewis.
"We are honored to release these bobbleheads of the iconic John Lewis who has been an inspiration for so many people across the globe,” said National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum co-founder and CEO Phil Sklar in a release. “As a leader of the civil rights movement, Mr. Lewis was front and center at many of our nation’s pivotal civil rights moments, including the ‘Bloody Sunday’ march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 and we think these bobbleheads will be a great way to honor and celebrate him.”
The bobbleheads can be purchased at the following web site: store.bobblehead.com.
They are $25 each or $45 for the pair (with a shipping charge of $8).