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Jul 18, 2020 · 28 Photos. In Focus. The civil-rights icon and longtime U.S. representative John Lewis died yesterday at the age of 80. Lewis began his life as the son of an Alabama sharecropper, and became ...
Feb 20, 2020 · US Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights legend and longtime congressman, has died at the age of 80. ... Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. Lewis and James Zwerg, another Freedom Rider, stand together after ...
Jul 18, 2020 · John Lewis, who went from being the youngest leader of the 1963 March on Washington to a long-serving congressman from Georgia and icon of the civil rights movement, has died. He was 80. Six ...
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Jul 18, 2020 · John Lewis, a civil rights and congressional leader, died at the age of 80 on July 17. The Georgia Democrat spent three decades in Congress defending the gains he had helped achieve for people of ...
Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon and fierce advocate of voting rights for African Americans, died on July 17 at the age of 80. Military pallbearers carry the casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga ...
Jul 24, 2020 · After moving to Nashville, Rep. John Lewis led and took part in many sit-ins at segregated restaurants. In this photo on April 23, 1960, white men pull Lewis and other protesters from their seats.
Jul 18, 2020 · John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement who famously was beaten by police in Selma, Ala., during the struggle for Black voting rights and went on to become a 17-term member of Congress ...