Fulfilling 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 where, in an incident that became known as Bloody Sunday, state troopers and police attacked Lewis and the other marchers.

On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers,...

2020年7月18日 · SELMA, Ala. (AP) — John Lewis saw the line of Alabama state troopers a few hundred yards away as he led hundreds of marchers to the apex of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965.

2025年2月4日 · John Lewis was an American civil rights leader and politician best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and for leading the landmark Selma March in 1965. In 1986 he was elected to a Georgia district that includes Atlanta in the U.S. House of Representatives.

John Lewis - March from Selma to Montgomery, "Bloody Sunday," 1965. In 1965, at the height of the modern civil rights movement, activists organized a march for voting rights, from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, the state capital.

2010年1月28日 · In response to Jackson’s death, King and the SCLC planned a massive protest march from Selma to the state capitol of Montgomery, 54 miles away. A group of 600 people, including activists John Lewis...

2025年2月6日 · In our Q&A, Greenberg explains how the events of March 7, 1965 affected John Lewis’s life and career, and what it means to Greenberg, as the author of the definitive biography of Lewis, to attend the 2025 pilgrimage to Selma.

In 2020, John Lewis announced he started another fight, one that would be one of the fiercest battles of his life. It was a fight against pancreatic cancer. ... “I was struck on the head with nightsticks by Alabama state troopers during that first Selma March,” Lewis wrote in his 2012 book, Across That Bridge. “At the time, I thought it ...

2022年3月7日 · Seventeen marchers were hospitalized, including future Congressman John Lewis, who suffered a fractured skull. Meet the youngest marcher to walk with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to...

2020年7月26日 · — On a different Sunday in Selma, this one more than five decades ago, John Lewis was a 25-year-old activist wearing a long tan coat and carrying a backpack, helping to marshal hundreds...