JOHN LEWIS

John Lewis (1940 - 2020)

John Robert Lewis was an American statesman and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia from 1987 until his death in 2020.

Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. He fulfilled many key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States.

In 1965, Lewis led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.