It would be almost another three years before John Lewis got his skull cracked protesting injustice. Three years before he ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...

John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940–July 17, 2020) was a giant in the civil rights movement whose wisdom, courage, ... In 1965, Lewis joined other organizers in leading a march from Selma to ...

The legislation would replace part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in 2013 and would aim to ... The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act– named ...

For Meacham, the pre-1965 Southern civil rights movement — and the career of the young Lewis in particular — connects these themes to today’s racial reckoning.

What John Lewis does in 1965 is try to help America recover from a century of distortion and abuse and discrimination, and he got bloodied for it.” Of course, in 2020, ...

John Lewis sits among civil rights leaders during a 1964 Civil Rights summit. ... 1965 in Selma, Alabama, John Lewis, then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...

In 1965, Lewis was among hundreds of activists who marched for voting rights from Selma, ... "John Lewis lived and worked with urgency because the task was urgent," McConnell said.

Lewis was back in Washington in 1965, alongside President Lyndon Johnson, as he signed the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights legislation that prohibited racial discrimination in voting.

In a speech that was almost surprising in its frank invocation of politics, Obama compared the brutal 1965 violence that nearly ended Lewis’ life—police fractured his skull on the Edmund ...

In this March 4, 2007, file photo, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talks to Congressman John Lewis during the 42nd Annual Commemoration of the 1965 Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March ...

As Lewis led the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights marches, part of the funereal procession included tracing the Montgomery voting rights trail. 2 July 25, 2020 ...