John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
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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.
Apr 3, 2014 · Who Was John Lewis? John Lewis grew up in an era of racial segregation. Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., he joined the burgeoning civil rights movement.
Jun 30, 2013 · John Lewis (February 21, 1940—July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights leader who served as a United States Representative for the Fifth Congressional District in Georgia from 1987 until he died in 2020. During the 1960s, Lewis was a college student and served as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Jul 18, 2020 · Lewis was the last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He was best known for leading 600 protesters in the 1965 Bloody Sunday march across the...
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 · 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 19, 2020 · The governors of New Jersey and New York paid tribute today to civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis who died after a battle with cancer. “John Lewis was an activist, a statesman, and a...
Jul 18, 2020 · John Lewis, one of the leaders of the civil rights movement and a member of congress for more than 33 years died yesterday of pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old.
Jul 18, 2020 · Rep. John Lewis, an iconic pioneer of the civil rights movement who famously shed his blood at the foot of a Selma, Ala., bridge in the fight for Black voting rights and went on to become a...
Jul 18, 2020 · Rep. John Robert Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and civil rights icon, died Friday. He was 80 years old. Lewis passed seven months after a routine medical visit revealed that he had stage 4 pancreatic ...
