John Lewis,” Lewis spokeswoman Brenda Jones said ... He had barely unpacked his bags before he and other civil rights leaders were invited to White House. President John F.

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Rep. John Lewis, a longtime congressman and renowned civil rights activist, has died. He was 80. The politician died on Friday, according to multiple reports. A senior Democratic official ...

It was the early spring of 1963, Saturday, March 23, and again on Saturday, March 30, to be exact when a group of ...

Longtime Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis has died after a battle with stage four pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old. The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Lewis was a central ...

The power went right to my head, and I began by assigning myself to introduce John Lewis, the congressman from Georgia who was an icon of the civil rights movement. Somehow the many higher-ups who ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

Presidents Bush, Clinton & Obama Reunite at Funeral for Civil Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis Lewis was the youngest of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement, alongside King, and led the ...

On March 7, 1965, 600 civil rights protesters attempting ... and all of his Democrat colleagues introduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore and modernize ...

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., explained why he backed a resolution upholding the right to boycott “at home and abroad” — even though he also voted to condemn ...

John Lewis was born to sharecroppers ... This event would help spark the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From 1986 until his death in 2020, Lewis was a congressman for Georgia.