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  1. www.britannica.com › biography › John-Lewis-AmericanJohn Lewis | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts | Britannica

    3 days ago · John Lewis, 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 began representing a Georgia district that includes Atlanta in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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  3. www.npr.org › 2024/08/18 › nx-s1-5080188A John Lewis statue will replace a former Confederate ... - NPR

    3 days ago · The 16-foot-tall sculpture of the civil rights icon will be officially unveiled later this week. It replaces a 30-foot-tall obelisk erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908.

  4. www.cbsnews.com › news › john-lewis-statueStatue of late civil rights leader John Lewis replaces more ...

    4 days ago · The large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis replaced a Confederate monument that stood there for more than 110 years.

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  6. www.nbcnews.com › news › us-newsStatue of John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old ...

    5 days ago · A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for...

  7. www.nytimes.com › 2024/08/18 › usStatue of John Lewis Replaces a Confederate Memorial in ...

    3 days ago · A statue of John Lewis, the civil rights leader and congressman, was installed on Friday in front of a Georgia county courthouse in a space occupied for more than 100 years by a Confederate...

  8. news.wgcu.org › 2024/08/18 › a-statue-honoring-johnA statue honoring John Lewis will replace a former ...

    3 days ago · A large bronze statue of the late civil rights leader and politician Rep. John Lewis was installed last week in Decatur, Ga., where a monument to the Confederacy was removed in 2020.

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  10. apnews.com › article › john-lewis-bronze-statueBronze statue of John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old ...

    5 days ago · A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020.