Prior to his political career, Lewis joined the Freedom Riders, and became the youngest speaker at the March on Washington in 1963, at just 21 years old. He also led a march that would become known as "Bloody Sunday." Demonstrators, including Lewis, were beaten by police as they walked ...
Reports that United States Representative John Lewis received an honor from the Atlanta University Center for his commitment to racial justice and equal education opportunity. List of higher education, civic and community leaders included in the convocation; Lewis' political career background.Fields...
Lewis and his family then traveled from Washington to his adopted home of Atlanta, Georgia, where he spent his political career. The late congressman will be brought to the Georgia State Capitol for a ceremony and public viewing before his funeral at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlan...
Lewis said he had been present when party officials joked about the possibility of driving green vans around polling places to give the impression that Immigration and Naturalization
highest ideals. And someday, when we do finish that long journey toward freedom; when we do form a more perfect union – whether it’s years from now, or decades, or even if it takes another two centuries – John Lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fair...
Greenberg’s biography traces Lewis’s life through the post-Civil Rights years, when he headed the Voter Education Project, which enrolled millions of African American voters across the South. The book reveals the little-known story of his political ascent first locally in Atlanta, and then as...
Georgia Congessman John Lewis died on Friday at the age of 80. Take some time to learn about his life and work in the documentary, John Lewis: Good Trouble.
Architecture criticLewis Mumfordalso mentioned Welfare Island in the Dec. 12 issue, but only as a reference point to view the new Cornell Medical Centre, which he found “indisputedly exhilarating.” Note the final lines of this excerpt, and how Mumford took a not-so-subtle swipe at New Yo...
April 14-15, 1865 (Night): Lewis Powell, one of Booth’s co-conspirators, attacks and seriously injures Secretary of State William Seward at his home. George Atzerodt, assigned to kill Vice President Johnson, loses his nerve and does not follow through. April 15, 1865 (7:22 AM): Presi...
New York mayor calls Lewis "a saint who walked among us" From CNN’s Ganesh Setty New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke at a community peace march in Brooklyn on Saturday, where he described Rep. John Lewis as “a saint who walked among us.” ...