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Bookmark or Share- John Lewis | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts | BritannicaJohn Lewis was an 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 was elected to a Georgia district that includes Atlanta in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who...
- Remembering Congressman John R. Lewis - Smithsonian InstitutionRemembering Congressman John R. Lewis John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940–July 17, 2020) was a giant in the civil rights movement whose wisdom, courage, and moral clarity earned him the nickname “the conscience of the Congress” during his 17 terms as a representative of Georgia’s fifth congressional district.
- John Lewis - WikipediaThe March trilogy is a black and white comics trilogy about the Civil Rights Movement, told through the perspective of civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman John Lewis.
- Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis dead at 80 - CNN“Today, America mourns the loss of one of the greatest heroes of American history: Congressman John Lewis, the Conscience of the Congress,” the California Democrat said.
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