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Jul 19, 2020 · Congressman John Robert Lewis embodies the best in all of us. Let his legacy and spirit live on. I offer my prayers and condolences to his family and to the grateful people of his district in Georgia. U.S. Rep. John Lewis speaks during a ceremony announcing the Library of Congress as the new home of the AIDS Memorial Quilt Archive, Nov. 20, 2019.
Jul 21, 2020 · July 21, 2020 5:18 PM EDT. I n the wake of the recent passing of John Lewis, much of the coverage of the 80-year-old Congressman’s life has been centered on his work to advance the U.S. civil ...
Jul 18, 2020 · Lewis felt, he would say, that King was speaking directly to him, telling him to get involved — and that the “spirit of history” was moving through him, too. The spirit of history told him ...
Oct 7, 2024 · John Lewis (born February 21, 1940, near Troy, Alabama, U.S.—died July 17, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia) was an American civil rights leader and politician 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 ...
Jul 18, 2020 · John Lewis’s last public appearance came in June 2020, near Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C., where the military had violently dispersed peaceful protesters mourning George Floyd’s murder. Lewis told Washington Post reporter Jonathan Capehart that, “It was so moving and so gratifying to see people from all over America and all over the world saying through their action, ‘I can do ...
Jul 18, 2020 · Congressman John Lewis died at age 80. His speeches chronicle the fight for racial justice and equality in America. The late congressman’s words chronicle his long and enduring fight for racial ...
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Jul 18, 2020 · Updated at 5:38 p.m. ET on July 18, 2020. John Lewis believed in the American project and wanted to perfect it.. On August 28, 1963, Lewis stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before ...
