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

John Lewis, born February 21, 1940, in Pike County, Alabama was an American Civil Rights Leader and politician.Lewis, the son ...

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 ...

Kelsey Grammer recently revealed to the New York Post the reason why he had a 30-year falling out with “Cheers” co-star Ted Danson. The two actors appeared on a podcast last October where Danson ...

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 ...

Dr. Marveta Ryan-Sams, coordinator of the Pan-African Studies Program, was in attendance of the Lunch and Learn. The ...

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

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