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Jul 19, 2020 · Rep. John Lewis died Friday at 80 years old. Lewis was the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure ...
Jul 17, 2020 · John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a ...
Jul 20, 2020 · How John Lewis spent his life bridging America’s racial and political divides. The pioneering civil rights leader was a champion of non-violent protest and change, despite the violence he ...
Jul 18, 2020 · Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) arrives to speak to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment marking the 55th anniversary of Selma’s Bloody Sunday on March 1, 2020 in Selma, Alabama. Mr.
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 17 ...
Jul 30, 2020 · A few words from the late civil rights leader and Georgia Congressman John Lewis written before he died and published today in The New York Times. Today, the conscience of the Congress was ...
Jul 18, 2020 · Alex Wong/Getty Images. Tributes poured in from across the nation on Saturday for John Lewis, the civil rights icon who died Friday at the age of 80. Lewis rose to prominence as a young civil ...
