John Lewis
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John Robert Lewis was an American civil rights activist and statesman who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 202
Official portrait, 2006
Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963. Lewis is fourth from left.
Leaders of the March on Washington, 1963. Lewis is second from right.
Lewis in 1964
Selma to Montgomery marches
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent ac
John Lewis
…key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States. In 1965, Lewis led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where, in an incident that became known as Bloody Sunday, state troopers and police attacked Lewis and the other marchers…
James Reeb marching with Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, and others.
James Bevel, SCLC's director of direct action and nonviolent education, initiated and organized the first march.
Alabama Highway Patrol troopers attack civil rights demonstrators outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965
Bloody Sunday-officers await demonstrators