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Recorded January 21, 2009. John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins and the Freedom Rides, was the ...
English. John Lewis: Good Trouble is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Dawn Porter about the life of civil rights activist and United States congressman John Lewis . The film was produced by CNN Films, AGC Studios and TIME Studios. It premiered in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 19, 2020, and was released by Magnolia Pictures and Participant ...
Rep. John Lewis, the sharecroppers' son who became a giant of the civil rights movement, died Friday after a monthslong battle with cancer, his family said. The longtime Georgia congressman, an ...
A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon and the last of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Friday at age 80.
In March 2015, on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, U.S. President Barack Obama, the first African-American U.S. president, delivered a speech at the foot of the bridge and then, along with former U.S. President George W. Bush, Representative John Lewis, and Civil Rights Movement activists such as Amelia Boynton Robinson (at Obama's side ...
Ahead of November, Vice President Kamala Harris pushes to revive the stalled John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a law aimed at preventing discriminatory practices during the voting process.
HVAC technician. Known for. Participation in the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Criminal charge. Obstruction of an Official Proceeding. Penalty. 51 months in prison. Kevin James Lyons (born 1982 or 1983) is an American convicted criminal who stole a photograph of Congressman John Lewis from house speaker Nancy Pelosi's office as he ...