ATLANTA (AP) — Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon and the last of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Rev.
John Lewis was an American activist and politician. He was born in 1940 in Troy, Alabama. When Lewis was growing up, segregation was stillin Southern states. As a teenager, Lewis was inspired by theof activist Martin Luther King, Jr. While he was a student in college, Lewis became involv...
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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
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Rep. John Lewis died Friday at 80 years old. Lewis was the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman. We’re wrapping up our live...
Let’s remember the power of John Lewis,” De Blasio said. The mayor then led the crowd in a moment of silence and round of applause for Lewis and then spoke of the Rev. C.T. Vivian, another leader of the civil rights movement who died on Friday. “We lost another giant as ...
Lewis died Friday at age 80 after a long battle with cancer. He has been in Congress since 1987 representing Georgia’s 5th District. which includes part of Atlanta. “America knew him as a Civil Rights Icon, Congressional Giant, and a moral compass, but I knew him as a friend,” Botto...