The Tear Gas Cycle: Unfinished Business from Selma to Trump's America Charles Mauldin's story is a testament to the cyclical nature of oppression and resistance in America.
At 17, he stood alongside John Lewis on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, facing down police brutality.
Now, at 78, he watches with horror as children are tear gassed by federal immigration officers, their young lungs and bodies affected by the same toxic chemicals that scarred his own.