John Lewis, D-Ga., left of Obama, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ... demonstrators gathered on March 7, 1965, to demand the right to vote and cross Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge.

John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, in 1940. He would listen to the broadcasts of Martin Luther King Jr. as a boy during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and, in 1960, took part in ...

SELMA, ALABAMA - MARCH 01: Rep. John ... Bridge crossing reenactment marking the 55th anniversary of Selma's Bloody Sunday on March 1, 2020 in Selma, Alabama. Mr. Lewis marched for civil rights ...

On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late Congressman John ... in Selma to walk across the bridge again as a reminder for what they went through. Lewis made a final ...

Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.

Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were all together again on Thursday to pay their respects to civil rights icon and longtime Rep. John ... movement. Lewis also led the march in Selma, Alabama ...

President Barack Obama, fourth from left, listens to Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga ... and members of Congress, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., for the 50th anniversary of the ...

Elected officials joined large crowds in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to march across the Edmund ... rights leader turned Congressmember John Lewis across the bridge in 1965, when they were brutally ...

"He, as much as anyone in our history, brought this country a little bit closer to our highest ideals," Obama said in his eulogy for the late lawmaker, who helped lay the foundation for modern-day ...

John Lewis in Georgia, former President Barack Obama ... during a march for voting rights, Lewis was brutally beaten and almost died as he led marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965.

John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, in 1940. He would listen to the broadcasts of Martin Luther King Jr. as a boy during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and in 1960, took part in his ...