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   What is John Lewis a life about?

   • 'John Lewis: A Life' will look back at the civil rights activist and representative's career across 60 years. Photo: Nearly four years after his death at 80 years old, a biographer is looking back on the life and career of civil rights activist and Georgia Representative John Lewis .

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   Who was John Lewis?

   • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn. 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.

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   Who were John Robert Lewis parents?

   • John Robert Lewis was born close to Troy, Alabama, on February 21, 1940, the third of ten children of Willie Mae (née Carter) and Eddie Lewis. His parents were sharecroppers in rural Pike County, Alabama, of which Troy was the county seat.

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   What did John Lewis talk about?

   • “Interview with John Lewis” pt.1 conducted in 1979 for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize in which he discusses the sit-ins in Nashville, the philosophy of non-violence, the Freedom Rides, his role in SNCC, and the March on Washington. Leaders of the March on Washington, 1963. Lewis is second from right.

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   May 3, 2024 · 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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   5 days ago · Early life and education. John Robert Lewis was born close to Troy, Alabama, on February 21, 1940, the third of ten children of Willie Mae (née Carter) and Eddie Lewis. [2] [3] [4] His parents were sharecroppers in rural Pike County, Alabama, of which Troy was the county seat. [5] [6]

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   May 2, 2024 · Books. Historians Look Back at Life and Career of Civil Rights Activist and Representative John Lewis in New Biography. 'John Lewis: A Life' will look back on the late politician's...

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   May 6, 2024 · Died: March 29, 2001, New York, New York (aged 80) John Lewis (born May 3, 1920, La Grange, Illinois, U.S.—died March 29, 2001, New York, New York) was an American jazz pianist and composer-arranger who was an influential member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, one of the longest-lived and best-received groups in jazz history.

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   5 days ago · Arts+. The Radically Different Lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis. Lewis’s vulnerability disarms his biographer, whereas King for all his noble rhetoric and moral suasion had a crass side that permits a biographer to be a little more earthy than this one.

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   May 3, 2024 · While still a very young man, John Lewis became a nationally recognized leader. By 1963, he was one of the “Big Six” leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. At the age of 23, he was an architect of and keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in August 1963.

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   Apr 25, 2024 · Remembering the life and legacy of John Lewis. 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 arrested several times during the Civil Rights Movement.