“It is with inconsolable grief and enduring sadness that we announce the passing of U.S. Rep. John Lewis,” his family said in a statement. “He was honored and respected as the conscience of the U.S. Congress and an icon of American history, but we knew him as a loving father and...
Family Life His parents were named Willie Mae and Eddie Lewis. He was married to Lillian Miles from 1968 until her death in 2012. They had one son, John-Miles. Associated With He retweeted fellow politician Keisha Lance Bottoms in July 2019. Popularity...
TROY, Ala. (AP) — Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday — in the rural Alabama county where his story began — as a humble man who sprang from his family’s farm with a vision that “good trouble” could
JOHN LEWIS MEMORIAL: FAMILY RELEASES DETAILS OF 6-DAY CELEBRATION OF HIS LIFE Lewis, an activist during the 1960s, was arrested for using a “white restroom” in 1961; he told demonstrators in late May that he understood their pain. “I know your pain, your rage, your sense of despair...
It also makes me happy to think of the older Lewis being so proud of his stewardship of those chickens that he continued to tell the story to people around him and in public speeches even in old age. It seems like a memory that he relished so much that it became one of the consisten...
Lewis was a boy preacher who was very involved in his family church in his youth. The teachings of Jesus really influenced him, and he became ordained while still a teenager. Then, as with Nelson Mandela, the teachings of Gandhi played a role. A couple of years after...
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John Lewis was an American civil rights leader and politician best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and for leading the landmark Selma March in 1965. In 1986 he was elected to a Georgia district that includes At
Lewis, D-Ga., this week was lying in state at the U.S. Capitol for three days as part of a six-day celebration of his life planned by his family. The celebration included a processional over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where he was beaten in 1965 as he led a group marching from Sel...
Lewis’ family and his friends.” Retired NBA star Earvin Magic Johnson John Lewis dedicated his life to advancing our community and fought tirelessly for justice and equal treatment. It is because of his unwillingness to back down to discrimination and injustice that we have gotten this far...