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Jul 13, 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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American civil rights leader and politician John Lewis was...
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Apr 3, 2014 · Best Known For: One of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, John Lewis continued to fight for people's rights since joining Congress in 1987....
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.
Jul 18, 2020 · Lewis, whose death from pancreatic cancer at age 80 was announced late last night, lived a revolutionary life as an activist, organizer, and representative who became known to many as the “soul”...
Jul 17, 2020 · American civil rights leader and politician John Lewis was best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and for leading the march that was halted by police violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, a landmark event in the history of the civil rights movement that became known as ...
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Jul 18, 2020 · To Rep. John Lewis, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture was more than simply a building. As he explained during the museum’s September 2016 dedication...
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Dec 26, 2020 · John Lewis, the great civil rights leader and Georgia congressman, died of pancreatic cancer on July 17, 2020, but he never left the headlines. His name and spirit stayed front and center...
