The son of Alabama sharecroppers, John Lewis became a major leader in ... the Freedom Rides, and the Selma-to-Montgomery march. As chair of SNCC he coordinated voter registration and community ...

John Lewis forged his legacy as a lifetime champion ... and Dr Martin Luther King (centre) lead marchers from Selma in March 1965 In March 1965, Lewis, King and other civil rights leaders ...

The Selma Marches were a series of protests that took ... who was a Confederate general and US Senator. John Lewis and Hosea Williams attempted to march across the bridge on March 7, 1965 along ...

Greenberg manages to capture Lewis’ lifelong enthusiasm for justice in amber, effectively reminding readers that change does ...

John Lewis, a civil rights icon ... and is known for leading hundreds across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965, a day now known as “Bloody Sunday.” He was elected to the ...