Download Congressman John Lewis Young Pics. A young man by the name of jim lawson, james. Lewis passed seven months after a routine medical visit.
John lewis, a civil rights activist whose bloody beating by alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in congress, has died.
A member of congress for more than thirty years, he channeled all he had learned from his fight for equality as a young man into empowering youth and minority communities. Martin luther king jr.'s closest allies, mr. Congressman lewis will speak to 200+ students about his #1 new york times and washington post bestseller march series, his life as a key figure in the civil rights movement, and the power of young people to change the world through nonviolence. The country continues to mourn the passing of civil rights leader and congressman john lewis who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.
