U.S. Rep. John Lewis paused for a minute Saturday looking at a photo of himself and the Rev. Hosea Williams on Bloody Sunday in 1965.

A few second later he asked himself “Who’s that boy?” as he pointed to a photo of himself at 25.

“Look at that young child,” Lewis said of his younger self.

Lewis toured ArtsRevive’s Spider Martin Retrospective gallery Saturday evening before a sit-down interview with The Selma Times-Journal.

As he made his way through the gallery, he commented on several pictures. Of a smiling Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King he said, “They look so young.”

The almost 30-year Congressman from Georgia took a moment to read aloud a quote to his staff from President Lyndon B. Johnson in calling for the Voting Rights Act:

“At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.

“That was powerful. That was so powerful,” Lewis said.

Lewis had been in town for several interviews and meetings ahead of this year’s visit by the Faith and Politics Institute. Lewis along with dozens of his fellow representatives and senators, will be in Selma on Saturday, March 7 with President Barack Obama to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

Lewis met with several media outlets while in Selma, including Bob Schieffer of CBS News.

His sit-down with The Selma Times-Journal will be part of a special commemorative edition that will be available Sunday, March 1.

The Spider Martin exhibit is open on Fridays and Saturdays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.