He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was ...

Would have I walked away after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and thought I had earned some ... a signal that the nation had turned a corner? John Lewis never gave up, never stopped working to ...

Tell Congress: Pass the Freedom to Vote Act and John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to protect every American’s constitutional right to vote and ensure that elections are decided by the ...

The body of civil rights icon, Democratic Congressman John Lewis, will lie in state this week in the US Capitol rotunda. The tribute is reserved for American statesmen and military leaders ...

Kelsey Grammer recently revealed to the New York Post the reason why he had a 30-year falling out with “Cheers” co-star Ted ...

Black Americans have made significant advancements in the 60 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act ... and the passage of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act.

Fellow civil rights activist John Lewis said, “that night in June… he spoke, I think, to the heart and to the soul of America. I would never forget that speech.” For others, the speech was ...

John Lewis, a fierce civil rights advocate and congressman from Georgia, died Friday at age 80. WSJ's Joshua Jamerson recounts Mr. Lewis's long and influential life. Photo: Riccardo S. Savi/Getty ...

Lewis, a civil rights activist and long-tenured United States congressman, died on July 17. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon and Congressman, Dead at 80 Lewis was a civil rights icon who helped ...

They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...

suffering a fractured skull. Lewis entered Congress in 1987 and fought for civil and labor rights for the rest of his life. He died in 2020. As John Robert Fellows for 2025–26, Basnet and Fisher ...