Tag: Selma
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
TROY, Ala. (AP) - Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday - in the rural Alabama county where his...
Segregation, King meeting set Lewis on quest for justice
TROY, Ala. (AP) - Eighteen-year-old John Lewis stepped off a Greyhound bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1958 after receiving a round-trip ticket from the...
Vivian remembered as courageous, humble Civil Rights warrior
ATLANTA (AP) - The nation paid its final respects Thursday to the Rev. C.T. Vivian, a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement who helped...
Rights activists, political leaders mourn Rep. John Lewis
Rights activists, politicians from both parties and many other people touched by the legacy of John Lewis mourned the congressman and pillar of the...
Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero’
WASHINGTON (AP) - People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. But at the very...
Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero’
WASHINGTON (AP) - People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. But at the very...
Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero’
WASHINGTON (AP) - People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. But at the very...
Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero’
WASHINGTON (AP) - People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. But at the very...
Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero’
WASHINGTON (AP) - People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. But at the very...
John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80
ATLANTA (AP) - John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition...
