Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Lewis, second from left, marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery in March 1965 with leaders including the Rev. Martin Luther ...

When John Lewis was just 9 years old, he and his cousin Della Mae hatched a plan that they believed would get them to freedom. Fueled by their relatives’ stories about the North, the two decided they ...

John Robert Lewis, a towering figure in the American civil rights movement and a long-serving member of the United States Congress, dedicated his life to the pursuit of justice and equality. Born on ...

John Lewis grew up in an Alabama family so poor that he and his young cousins once had to shuttle from room to room, acting as “ballast” to keep their aunt’s house from blowing away in a windstorm.

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ATLANTA — 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 ...

This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows “John Lewis: A Life” by David Greenberg. (Simon & Schuster via AP) In “John Lewis: A Life,” David Greenberg recounts how the late Democratic ...

When civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia died last month, so did a big piece of America. Lewis was the rarest of things — a politician who was roundly admired by Americans of ...

John Lewis, the civil rights activist who would go on to become a long-serving congressman and whose death this summer provoked a national outpouring of grief, woke up in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965 ...