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Jan 20, 2015 · This second volume focuses on the Freedom Riders in 1961, and also on the March on Washington in August 1963. That was the day when Dr. Martin Luther King made his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Of all the people who spoke that day, only Lewis is still alive.
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Aug 2, 2016 · March, Book 3 is the conclusion of the series, but John Lewis remains a larger-than-life political activist and Georgia Congressman whose wisdom will endure through countless generations. “We are one people, one family, one house–the American house,” he recently wrote on Twitter.
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Aug 3, 2021 · In Run: Book One, John Lewis and longtime collaborator Andrew Aydin reteam with Nate Powell—the award–winning illustrator of the March trilogy—and are joined by L. Fury—making an astonishing graphic novel debut—to tell this often overlooked chapter of civil rights history. 152 pages, Hardcover.
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Jun 23, 2016 · He was the youngest, and, now aged 76, is the last still alive. At just 21 he was on the Freedom Rides, sitting in bus seats reserved for whites to challenge segregation.
Feb 6, 2024 · In the deeply researched and accessible “John Lewis,” for example, the historian Raymond Arsenault describes how the Freedom Riders were arrested and jailed almost as soon as they reached...
May 4, 2021 · 34 Štajner got arrested soon after the 1936 meeting, together with 112 other Yugoslav Communists. Charged with espionage, he was freed after 20 years, or 7,000 days, in Siberia. Only 13 of his colleagues were still alive in 1955.
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John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.
