John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, in 1940. He would listen to the broadcasts of Martin Luther King Jr.

At dawn six years ago, I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge ... gonna come.” Every March, celebrities and dignitaries walk with the townspeople on that bridge, retracing the steps of King ...

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