As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble."\nIn this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond
John Lewis is still very much in our political culture and in our collective memory. As I wrote the book, I dove right in, without an introduction. I decided people would get a sense of Lewis and the book quickly, so I focused initially on his early childhood and his ancestry. ...
John Lewis was an American activist and politician. He was born in 1940 in Troy, Alabama. When Lewis was growing up, segregation was still in Southern states. As a teenager, Lewis was inspired by the of activist Martin Luther King, Jr. While he was a student in college, Lewis became in...
John Lewis that draws upon 100s of interviews will be published next fall An upcoming biography of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis will draw upon hundreds of interviews, along with the civil rights activist’s FBI files and materials from a planned book that was never completed. No ...
We cannot treat voting as an errand to run if we have some time. We have to treat it as the most important action we can take on behalf of democracy. Like John, we have to give it all we have. I was proud that John Lewis was a friend of mine. I met him whe...
(Lewis and Aydin 1:103). It was not about him or a reduced group of people, it was about an oppressed community that was suffering injustice as we can’t even imagine. Lewis also says, “The first of many” (Lewis and Aydin 1:103). Just in case we did not understand his first ...
As to the question of whether or not that reputation was true, Dr. Dyer stated that the veracity of the statement must be based off the definition of “political.” In a sense of policy, Lewis didn’t invest much into politics. But if politics can be considered as a study of humans ...
an activist pushing from the outside, Lewis' career as a congressman has solidified his stature as a strategically agile activist making noise on the inside. Here is a riveting portrait of Lewis' journey of courage, searing disappointments and hard-won triumphs as over the decades he inspires ...
Lewis worked as both an activist and a politician to protect the voting rights of Black Americans, and the documentary preaches that message in a way that the departed Congressman no longer can.The documentary's title, it should be noted, comes straight from Lewis. ...
"For the last 60 years as a nonviolent civil rights activist, he was a voice for those who couldn't speak, the feet for those who couldn't walk and the champion of injustice for those that couldn't fight," O'Brien said. She said it was clear why Lewis' life had been so celeb...