July 25, 2020 - His parents, Eddie and Willie Mae Lewis, called “Mul” by family, had 10 children spread across 19 years, according to a profile by the AJC’s Tia Mitchell and Ernie Suggs. The children were: Ora.

... John Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, in Troy, Alabama, the third of ten children of Willie Mae (née Carter) and Eddie Lewis. His parents were sharecroppers in rural Pike County, Alabama.

When John Lewis "slew the Irish lord" and fled to America in 1729, he established a prominent family which has maintained its identity for more than two and a half centuries. His sons Thomas, Gen. Andrew, William and Col. Charles, raised in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley near Staunton, had important roles in American Revolutionary times.

August 25, 2023 - Getty(L-R) Freddie Lewis, John-Miles Lewis, Grant Lewis, Samuel Lewis, and Jerrick Lewis, family members of former US Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) attend a press conference on July 19, 2020 at Rep.

February 23, 2020 - John Lewis has nine brothers and sisters who are all very close, an adopted son, and he was married for 44 years. Learn about his family here.

July 25, 2020 - The late US Rep. John Lewis was remembered on Saturday as a humble family man by his siblings and a hero by his great-nephew at a hometown service in Troy, Alabama.

August 23, 2022 - After Congressman Lewis passed away two years ago – on July 17, 2020, the Lewis family was reminded how loved and admired he was by many. The body of John Lewis lies in state while nephew Ron Lewis reflects on his incredible legacy.

October 27, 2010 - Notable Family Members: son of Eddie Lewis · son of Willie Mae Lewis · married to Lillian Miles Lewis (1968–2012 [her death]) father of John Miles (Show more) Subjects Of Study: “John Lewis: Good Trouble” (Show more) Role In: American civil rights movement ·

July 26, 2020 - His brother, Freddie Lewis, implored people to do so by voting. His sister, Rosa Mae Tyner, recalled that he “lived with the never-ending desire to help others.” Another brother, Henry “Grant” Lewis, said Lewis “would gravitate toward ...

February 16, 2024 - Every day and every night on the news (there) was something about what was happening in the civil rights movement, so I felt like I knew him.” John Robert Lewis and Lillian Miles were married in the sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church in ...

"John Lewis and Cory Booker." Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Season 1, Episode 2). PBS. 25 Mar 2012. ... "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V15M-1WW : 29 February 2020), John Robert Lewis in household of Eddie Lewis, Election Precinct 4, Pike, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 55-11, sheet 17A, line 16, family 289, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627.

2 days ago - In 2020, Lewis was awarded the Walter P. Reuther Humanitarian Award by Wayne State University, the UAW, and the Reuther family. Lewis gave numerous commencement addresses, including at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in 2014, Bates College (in Lewiston, Maine) and Washington University in St. Louis in 2016, Bard College and Bank Street College of Education in 2017, and Harvard University in 2018. Lewis was recognized for his involvement with comics with the 2017 Inkpot Award. On July 30, 2018, the Atlanta City Council voted to rename Atlanta's Freedom Parkway John Lewis Freedom Parkway.

October 22, 2021 - Lewis Warren joined her uncles, Henry Grant Lewis and Samuel Lewis, on the trip to Washington. The family said they wanted to continue the Congressman’s legacy by pushing the “For The People Act” and the “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement ...

August 4, 2020 - Lewis, who died on July 17 at the age of 80, ascended and in the work he did along the way. But while the world knew John Lewis the activist and congressman, his family sought to memorialize the brother they called Robert, his middle name, used only by those closest to him.

October 24, 2017 - In his memoir, so far as Representative Lewis knew at the time, the family members were all from Alabama.

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On July 25, family members spoke at Rep. John Lewis’s hometown funeral in Troy, Ala., in services entitled, “The Boy From Troy.”

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