ATLANTA (AP) — Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon and the last of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Rev.
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for the final time Sunday as remembrances continue for the civil rights icon
Lewis, a civil rights activist and long-tenured United States congressman, died on July 17. Former President Barack Obama delivered a powerful eulogy at the funeral service for the late congressman and renowned civil rights leader John Lewis on Thursday, remembering the inspirational ...
9:35 'Part of America died on Friday' after John Lewis death: Rep. Val Demings Martha Raddatz interviews Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., and Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., on "This Week."To honor the life and legacy of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., ...
Before his death in 2020, extensive biographies of civil rights icon John Lewis did not exist. A new biography sheds light on this dynamic leader and congressman and explains why his message still resonates. About the book In this editionofAuthor Talks, McKinsey Global Publish...
Lewis could be pugnacious, tenacious and single-minded, and he led with a force that commanded attention. He gained a reputation for having an almost mystical faith in his own survivability. One civil rights activist who knew him well told The New York Times in 1976: “Some leaders, even ...
Lewis was a young activist who helped planned the 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, which was meant to advocate for the right to vote - or, as Lewis said in 1965, "to dramatize to our nation and to the world our determination to win first-class citizenship." ...
The first of a six-day celebration of the late civil rights activist and Democratic congressman Rep. John Lewis began Saturday, beginning in his hometown of Troy and then journeying to Selma, Ala.
John Lewis’ death. This is the first personal reaction from the President on the passing of Lewis outside of a brief mention of the late congressman’s “public service” in the proclamation ordering flags to half-staff. Saddened to hear the news of civil rights hero John Lewis passing...
“The greatest tribute that all of us could take is to be engaged and participate in this upcoming election and elections from now on. That would be what John Lewis would want us to do, to be engaged,”@OfficialMLK3says about the civil rights icon’s death.https://t.co/qze5Nvcaffpic...