July 25, 2020 - His youngest brother Henry Grant Lewis spoke on behalf of the Lewis family this week, thanking the nation and the world for the outpouring of tributes and condolences for John Lewis.

August 25, 2023 - John Lewis’ nine siblings included six brothers and three sisters. His brothers were Adolph Lewis, Sammy Lewis, William Lewis, Grant Lewis, Edward Lewis, and Freddie Lewis.

2 days 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.

Reporter Nicole Ellis travels to the Lewis family farm in Troy, Alabama, to find out about John Lewis’s legacy of courage, faith and “good trouble.” According to his siblings, Rosa Lewis Tyner and Henry Grant Lewis, preaching to chickens ...

December 26, 2021 - On the one-year anniversary of John Lewis’ burial, activists, politicians and organizers gathered at the John Lewis Memorial Mural to celebrate Lewis’ lifetime of public service. The event’s honored guests were Samuel and Henry Lewis, two ...

February 23, 2020 - John Lewis comes from a large family of nine brothers and sisters. His siblings included three sisters: Ethel, Rosa, and Ora. He had seven brothers: Adolph, Edward, Grant, Freddie, Sammy, and William.

July 25, 2020 - While the world knew John Robert Lewis, a civil rights icon and longtime US Democratic congressman, as John, to his family, he was known as Robert. In celebrating the life of “The Boy from Troy,” five of Lewis’ siblings spoke of a man of faith who wanted to help others, who never forgot his roots, and who made time for family despite his busy schedule and enormous responsibilities.

July 26, 2020 - A weekend of remembrance of civil rights champion and Congressman John Lewis in his native Alabama began this morning with a public memorial service at Troy University in Pike County, where Lewis grew up. Five of Lewis’ siblings gave loving tributes to their brother, whom they knew by his middle name, Robert.

Lewis had relatives who lived in northern cities, and he learned from them that the North had integrated schools, buses, and businesses. When Lewis was 11, an uncle took him on a trip to Buffalo, New York, making him more acutely aware of Troy's segregation. ... John Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, in Troy, Alabama, the third of ten children of Willie Mae (née Carter) and Eddie Lewis.

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 ...

John Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, in Troy, Alabama, USA. His parents, Willie Mae (née Carter) and Eddie Lewis, were sharecroppers. He had two older and seven younger siblings.

July 19, 2020 - As Henry Grant Lewis spoke, he was flanked by two of his brothers, Freddie and Samuel Lewis; his son Jerrick Lewis; and John Lewis’ son, John-Miles Lewis.

August 8, 2020 - Five decades later, Lewis addressed the graduates of the Rochester Educational Opportunity Center, where Sister Barbara was a faculty member. Overcome with emotion, he said, "Thank you to Sister Barbara and all the SSJs — thank you for what ...

August 4, 2020 - His brother Samuel Lewis remembered when he left home. “Mother told him not to get in trouble, not to get in the way,” he recalled. “We all know that John got in trouble, got in the way, but it was a good trouble.”

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. Growing up, Lewis and his nine siblings ...

November 9, 2023 - Willie James Lewis was John Lewis’s younger brother.

July 19, 2020 - Grant Lewis said John fought until the very end. “That was my big brother. He was fighter with a tenacious spirit, but he was also gracious and kindhearted. A great man and public servant.” ... Grant also shared a story that displayed kindness ...