John Lewis, born February 21, 1940, in Pike County, Alabama was an American Civil Rights Leader and politician.Lewis, the son ...

Many of the people who advise me to emulate King oppose diversity, equity and inclusion — the principles King championed and ...

Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther ... just age 35, King became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Another Georgian who was key in the movement was John Lewis.

He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said the goal of the civil rights ... For that matter, what happened to Sheriff Jim Clark, whose troopers attacked John Lewis and other peaceful marchers with billy clubs ...

Dr. Marveta Ryan-Sams, coordinator of the Pan-African Studies Program, was in attendance of the Lunch and Learn. The ...

John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, in 1940. He would listen to the broadcasts of Martin Luther King Jr.

"Their alignment with service, community service was right in line with the things that I was already doing," Crystal Gayden ...

Selma, Alabama, became the center for the movement for voting rights. Now, a piece of that history is at the Henry Ford ...

They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on that bridge. I thought I saw death,” Lewis said.

She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were ...

She directed “The Big Payback” in 2022, which aired on PBS on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2023. She is also the producer of “Finding Tamika” and “John Lewis: Good Trouble.” ...