It seemed as though the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “was speaking directly to me,” Lewis recalled. “I felt like he was saying, ‘John Lewis, you can do it. You can make a difference in the ...
Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...
Donald Trump kicked of Martin Luther King Day weekend by lashing out at civil-rights icon John Lewis and accusing him of "all talk " and "no action or results" Dave Quinn is a Senior Editor for ...
John Lewis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer ... Lewis was constantly inspired by the words of Martin Luther King Jr. and the activism going on around him. He later attended Fisk University ...
We honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an advocate ... and as the late civil rights activist and Congressman John Lewis would say, get in some “good trouble.” ...
As we honor the life and legacy of the esteemed U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a longtime Congressman from Georgia and fearless champion of civil rights and voting equality who died almost 5 years ago on ...
As people gather in Selma to remember "Bloody Sunday,'' some call for action. "We're still in the midst of this struggle,’’ ...
On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late Congressman John Lewis, gathered for a peaceful march for voting rights in Selma. But that peace was shattered on the Edmund ...
Protesters were tear gassed and beaten. A young man named John Lewis suffered a fractured skull. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis and others, the protestors returned later that month and ...