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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. He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, was the chairman of the Student ...
English. John Lewis: Good Trouble is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Dawn Porter about the life of civil rights activist and United States congressman John Lewis . The film was produced by CNN Films, AGC Studios and TIME Studios. It premiered in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 19, 2020, and was released by Magnolia Pictures and Participant ...
Historian David Greenberg pens “John Lewis: A Life” NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming biography of the late U.S. Rep. John […] The post Biography of the late Rep. John Lewis that draws upon 100s ...
An upcoming biography of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis will draw upon hundreds of interviews, along with the civil rights activist's FBI files and materials from a planned book that was never ...
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. He is being ...
Foreign relations of the United States. John Lewis Gaddis (born April 2, 1941) is an American military historian, political scientist, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. [1] He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy, [1] and he has been hailed as the "Dean of ...
John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 – June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the history of coal mining, he was the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), which ...
Grand Encounter. Grand Encounter (subtitled 2° East / 3° West) is an album by pianist and composer John Lewis with saxophonist Bill Perkins, guitarist Jim Hall, bassist Percy Heath and drummer Chico Hamilton recorded for the Pacific Jazz label in 1956. [1] [2] The subtitle refers to the groups mix of East Coast (Lewis, Hall and Heath) and ...