SELMA, Ala. (Reuters) - The body of civil rights icon John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, decades after his "Bloody Sunday" beating there drew a national spotlight to the struggle ...
In a deeply symbolic tribute, a lone caisson drawn by two black horses on Sunday slowly carried the body of John Lewis across the Alabama bridge where in 1965 a policeman fractured his skull during a ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a solemn display of bipartisan unity, congressional leaders praised Democratic Rep. John Lewis as a moral force for the nation on Monday in a Capitol Rotunda memorial service rich ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Thursday marks five years since the passing of Alabama native and former U.S. Rep. John Lewis. Lewis was born the son of sharecroppers in Pike County in 1940. At age 25, ...
In his new biography, David Greenberg tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative. By Brent Staples Essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates; memoirs by Alexei ...
Updated at 5:00 p.m. ET The body of John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge one last time on Sunday in what organizers described as "The Final Crossing," part of a multiday celebration of the life ...
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