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The book provides new material pertaining to Lewis's personal and professional life. It details his role in the Civil Rights Movement, providing details of his role during the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, where Lewis was severely beaten and almost died. This biography also chronicles Lewis's legacy of fighting for equality and justice.
John Spedan Lewis (22 September 1885 – 21 February 1963) was an English businessman and the founder of the John Lewis Partnership. Elder son of John Lewis, who owned the John Lewis department store, London, Spedan joined the business at 19 and in 1914 assumed control of Peter Jones in Sloane Square, London. On his father's death he formed the ...
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American civil rights activist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.
He was the eldest son of John Stucley (1551-1611) lord of the manor of Affeton in Devon, and his wife Frances St Leger, daughter of Sir John St Leger, [3] (d.1596) of Annery in Devon, His grandfather Lewis Stucley (c.1530–1581) of Affeton was the eldest brother of Thomas Stucley [4] (1520–1578) The Lusty Stucley, a mercenary leader who was killed fighting against the Moors at the Battle of ...
Crowds watched solemnly as the body of Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge one final time, 55 years after the civil rights icon marched for peace and was met with brutality in Selma ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon and the last of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Friday at age 80.
At Fisk, Zwerg met John Lewis, who was active in the Civil Rights Movement, and was immediately impressed with the way Lewis handled himself and his commitment to the movement. [1] Lewis was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a student organized Civil Rights activist group focused on nonviolent direct action .
When Sean “Puffy” Combs joined the A&R department at Uptown Records in 1990, his first assistant, Pam Lewis-Rudden, looked at her 20-year-old boss and considered her own career. Easily 10 ...