John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
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Jul 19, 2020 · Here's a look at the life of US Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights leader. Personal. Birth date: February 21, 1940. Birth place: Troy, Alabama. Birth name: John Robert Lewis
Jul 18, 2020 · Lewis was the last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He was best known for leading 600 protesters in the 1965 Bloody Sunday march across the...
Jul 18, 2020 · Tributes poured in from across the nation on Saturday for John Lewis, the civil rights icon who died Friday at the age of 80. Lewis rose to prominence as a young civil rights activist who...
Jul 17, 2020 · John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80. Images of his beating at Selma shocked the nation and led to swift passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He was later called the ...
Dec 5, 2023 · 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.
Jul 30, 2020 · A 12-year-old boy John Lewis befriended two years ago read the late congressman's favorite poem at his service today.
Jul 30, 2020 · Lewis, who died July 17 at the age of 80 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, had spent more than three decades in Congress as a thorn in the side of Republican administrations. And he and ...
