On Capitol Hill, for almost 26 hours, the 1960s were back. Led by Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who’s a hero of the civil rights movement, the dramatic sit-in on the floor of the U.S. House of ...
In a small classroom, 15 to 20 young activists practice nonviolence as their friends pretend to be police delivering racist slurs and grabbing them from behind, a lesson in how to endure horrific beat ...
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) knows a thing or two about protests, and today's are like nothing he's ever seen before. Lewis, a civil rights leader and longtime congressmember, appeared on CBS This Morning ...
On Nov. 10, 1960, employees at a restaurant on Fifth Avenue used water hoses, wet brooms and a fumigation machine to try and drive John Lewis away from the lunch counter. He stayed put, clasping a ...
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn will offer legislation Monday to rename a House-passed voting rights bill after the late Rep. John Lewis, who was brutalized in the 1960s during efforts to secure ...
John Lewis is dead. The venerable civil rights leader, who later served as a member of the House of Representatives from Georgia for 33 years, died Friday at age 80, after a prolonged battle against ...
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