1959-1960 – Organizes student sit-in demonstrations in the Nashville area. May 1961 – Volunteers as a Freedom Rider, challenging bus and rail segregation laws. 1963-1966 – Chairman of the Student ...

John Lewis fought for the vote and for equality by making good trouble. Let these John Lewis quotes inspire you to make a ...

Lewis, a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr., battled pancreatic cancer. Rep. John Robert Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and civil rights icon, died Friday. He was 80 years old. Lewis passed seven ...

Lewis’ skull was fractured in 1965 during an attempted voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama. By his own count, Lewis was arrested more than 40 times during his days of civil ...