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John Lewis: A Life is a biographical account of the former United States Congressman, ... This page was last edited on 20 December 2024, at 04:01 (UTC).
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American civil rights activist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.
John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Early life [ edit ]
ATLANTA (AP) — Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon and the last of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Friday at age 80.
Civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. John Lewis, who marched in 1965 with voting rights protesters on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama, passed away on Friday following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
He was the last surviving speaker from the March on Washington in 1963. "The NBA Family mourns the passing of Rep. John Lewis, a great American hero and icon of the civil rights movement and the ...
John Lewis was born in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, and became an orphan at the age of seven.He was brought up by an aunt, Miss Ann Speed. [1] Having served as an apprentice to a local draper from the age of fourteen, he moved to London to become a silk buyer in the capital, working in Peter Robinson's Department Store at Oxford Circus by the time he was 20.
The Big Six—Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.