John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
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Jul 30, 2020 · Rep. John Lewis was laid to rest today at South-View Cemetery following a funeral service that took place at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s former church in Atlanta. An honor guard carried the ...
Jul 19, 2020 · John Lewis, a civil rights icon and longtime US congressman, has died.He was 80. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2019. Lewis became involved in the civil rights movement at 15 ...
Jul 18, 2020 · Rep. John Lewis was remembered Saturday for his decades of service as a champion for civil rights. Lewis died Friday at the age of 80. Tributes poured in from across the nation on Saturday for...
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 · Updated 6:03 AM PDT, December 5, 2023. NEW YORK (AP) — 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 · On Monday, Lewis' body was taken to Washington, DC, where lawmakers paid their final respects. He became the first Black lawmaker to lie in state at the US Capitol Rotunda. A 12-year-old boy John ...
Jul 18, 2020 · Rep. John Lewis, a Civil Rights hero, died of pancreatic cancer Friday night. A supporter of civic engagement, including the ongoing global Black Lives Matter protests, Lewis had been beaten and ...
