John Lewis wanted to be a preacher. As a young boy tending to his family’s chickens in rural Pike County, Ala., the future Georgia congressman would assemble the landfowl onto their roosts and ...

(AP Photo/Mike Stewart) WASHINGTON (CN) — Marking the first time that the honor has been bestowed on a Black lawmaker, the body of 17-term Georgia Congressman John Lewis arrived Monday to lie in state ...

Late Georgia Congressman John Lewis would have turned 85 years old on Friday.

John Lewis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer ... In 1986, Lewis was elected to Congress where he continued to serve as U.S. Representative of Georgia's Fifth Congressional District.

The former site of a Confederate memorial in Georgia now holds a statue of the late American civil rights leader and former congressman John Lewis. Crews lowered the statue of Lewis in downtown ...

Longtime Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis has died after a battle with stage four pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old. The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Lewis was a central ...

"It was very moving, very moving to see hundreds of thousands of people from all over America and around the world take to the streets," the Georgia congressman said Rep. John Lewis is speaking ...

Georgia congressman John Lewis addressed the Democratic National Convention on the historic suppression of voters' rights, linking past injustices to new new voting legislation. Same-Sex Marriage ...

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He served in the U.S. Congress for 17 terms, representing Georgia until his passing in 2020. For more information, visi the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation at John and Lillian Miles Lewis ...