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Civil Rights Activist preparing to demonstrate at the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis can both be seen on the right side of the frame.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was my friend, my mentor; he was like a big brother. — John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) January 16, 2017 ...
Representative John Lewis (D-GA) talks about his first meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and how he was inspired by his youth and message of non-violence. Report Video Issue ...
Lewis says Trump wouldn't have been elected had King been alive. — -- Rep. John Lewis, who boycotted President Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, said Martin Luther King Jr. “would ...
‘John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community’ By Raymond Arsenault Yale University Press, 588 pages. John Lewis first shows up in Jonathan Eig’s trenchant biography as the kind of courageous and ...
Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would go on to become the voice of the movement. In 1955, he served as the spokesman for the Montgomery bus boycott.
John Lewis Wrote Tributes to His Wife and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Posthumous Book: 'I Miss Her' Stevie Wonder Tells Oprah He Is Permanently Moving to Ghana to Protect Grandchildren from ...
Nearly six decades after John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and others fought "Jim Crow" laws that blocked some Americans from the ballot box, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, voting ...
Civil rights leaders including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis and labor luminaries Walter Reuther and James Hoffa paused Tuesday to bury the latest in a long line of dead — a ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – A Drum Major for Justice ... – Martin Luther King Jr., "The Death of Evil upon the Seashore," sermon given at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, May 17, ...
On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of 250,000 white and Black Americans and delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.