John Lewis,” Lewis spokeswoman Brenda Jones ... He had barely unpacked his bags before he and other civil rights leaders were invited to White House. President John F. Kennedy, who would be ...

Longtime Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis has died after a battle with stage four ... Lewis introduced his colleagues to the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth , a now-deceased leader of the ...

John Lewis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer ... At only 23 years old, Lewis was already named one of the Big Six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, he was the youngest speaker ...

Finally, it’s impossible to talk about John Lewis without talking about his faith. Lewis was a civil rights leader, a legislator, an author, and a mentor to many. But he was always a preacher.

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 ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by ...

to be exact when a group of anti-segregation demonstrators led by Civil Rights activist John Lewis staged a "Freedom March" through the streets of downtown Nashville protesting the refusal of ...

The son of Alabama sharecroppers, John Lewis became a major leader in the civil rights movement, and later a representative from Georgia in the U.S. Congress, where he still serves. He ...

Tennessee was a crucial battleground in the early civil rights movement, influencing the late John Lewis' fight against Jim Crow before he helped lead the march in Selma. Why it matters: Decades later ...