John Lewis

1 day ago - John Robert Lewis was born near Troy, Alabama, on February 21, 1940, the third of ten children of Willie Mae (née Carter) and Eddie Lewis. His parents were sharecroppers in rural Pike County, Alabama, of which Troy was the county seat. His great-grandfather, Frank Carter, had been born enslaved in the same county in 1862, and lived until Lewis was seven years old.

October 27, 2010 - John Lewis (born February 21, 1940, near Troy, Alabama, U.S.—died July 17, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia) was an American civil rights leader and politician best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and ...

Lewis served in the United States Congress for more than 30 years. John Robert Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, near Troy, Alabama. He grew up on his family’s farm, where his parents were sharecroppers.

April 5, 2022 - As a kid being turned away from the public library in Troy, Alabama, could you ever have imagined the life you’ve lived, and the level of achievement that you have realized? John Lewis: If someone had told me when I was growing up outside ...

He does say in some of these oral ... young boy, he had virtually or no interaction with whites. That appears to change in childhood. They live near a town called Troy, which is a small town but not tiny....

The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Representative John Lewis of Georgia dedicated his life to advancing the cause of freedom and equality in America. As a leader in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Lewis challenged Jim Crow segregation and oppression across the South through nonviolent protest.

October 19, 2020 - There was perhaps no single figure whose own life and career embodied the promise, success, and continued challenges of civil rights for Black Americans than John Lewis. Born in 1940 in Alabama, Lewis was at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

July 16, 2021 - Born to a sharecropper family in Pike County, Alabama, on February 21, 1940, John R. Lewis was educated at the American Baptist Theological Seminary and Fisk University, both in Nashville, Tennessee.

January 12, 2021 - John Robert Lewis was born outside of Troy, Alabama, on February 21, 1940. Lewis had a happy childhood — though he needed to work hard to assist his sharecropper parents — but he chafed against the unfairness of segregation.

September 18, 2025 - He courageously put his life on the line many times during the civil rights movement and has become one of the most respected members of Congress. John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Alabama, in 1940. He encountered the ugliness and brutality of racism while participating in sit-ins as ...

John Lewis lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

May 11, 2020 - John Lewis. Self: John Lewis: Good Trouble. John Lewis was born on 21 February 1940 in Troy, Alabama, USA. He was married to Lillian Miles. He died on 17 July 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

October 5, 2023 - Civil rights icon John Lewis (1940-2020) was a long-serving Democratic congressman of the Fifth Congressional District in the state of Georgia. Lewis became nationally known in the 1960s for his leadership in some of the most iconic events of the civil rights movement.

Few individuals in the history of the American civil rights movement cast as long a shadow as Representative John Lewis (1940–2020). Born in rural Alabama as the son of sharecroppers, Lewis first gained fame (at least in his hometown newspaper) ...

October 27, 2022 - There is precious little information that remains on John Lewis per Britannia (1791), but we know he was tried and convicted on 11 January 1791 at the Quarter Sessions for Wiltshire held in the market town of Devizes, Wiltshire, England.[12] The Court judged him guilty of ‘stealing a silk handkerchief, three pair of silver plated buckles, &c. from a stable near Guildford,’ and was ‘ordered to be transported for seven years.’[13] The crime was certainly one that an ‘elderly’ fellow would have been physically capable of committing, so there is nothing here to disqualify the Britannia’s John Lewis as being the man who was murdered and buried in the parish of St. John’s, Parramatta, almost three years to the day since this trial. While thirty-eight-year-old Collins considered Lewis ‘elderly,’ this did not automatically mean he thought of him as frail.

He has been at the forefront of progressive social and political causes for more than forty years. Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, in Troy, Alabama to sharecroppers Eddie Lewis and Willie Mae Miles.

August 31, 2022 - The birthplace of the late Congressman John Robert Lewis now bears a historic marker, recognizing the significance that this tract of land off Gardner Bassett Road just outside of Troy had on the Civil Rights icon’s life and legacy.

April 17, 2025 - Lecture Date: April 1, 2025 The Irene and Curry Roberts Lecture For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940–2020) was a towering figure in the struggle for civil rights in the United States. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable ...

January 18, 2022 - Rep. John Lewis, born February 21, 1940, died on July 17 at the age of 80. He was a leader of the civil rights movement and longtime U.S. congressman from Atlanta. He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., won numerous awards and was remembered for so much more.