View this post on Instagram Civil Rights Movement icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) died Friday night at 80 after a bout with pancreatic cancer. Lewis, who was intricately involved in the Civil Rights Movement alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the era, was a key figure in the House Democrat conference. Lewis was one of the youngest leaders of the Civil Rights movement, as the head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). During his time as the head of SNCC, Lewis along with the other five so-called “Big Six” Civil Rights Movements leaders–King, the National Urban League’s Whitney Young Jr., labor leader A. Philip Randolph, CORE’s James Farmer Jr., and the NAACP’s Roy Wilkins–organized the March on Washington at which King delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech. Lewis was one of the more aggressive in pursuit of the cause. In 2009, the New Yorker’s David Remnick reported that other Civil Rights movement leaders toned down Lewis’s speech at the March on Washington because they feared it would aggravate then-President John F. Kennedy’s administration. In its obituary on Lewis Friday night, Politico noted that Lewis later said he was upset at first with the edits to his speech but later was satisfied with the result. “I was angry, but when we were done, I was satisfied,” Lewis later wrote in his book Walking With the Wind. Lewis was instrumental in many other facets of the Civil Rights Movement in addition to the March on Washington.A post shared by Breitbart (@wearebreitbart) on Jul 18, 2020 at 9:01am PDT
Civil Rights Movement icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) died Friday night at 80 after a bout with pancreatic cancer. Lewis, who was intricately involved in the Civil Rights Movement alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the era, was a key figure in the House Democrat conference. Lewis was one of the youngest leaders of the Civil Rights movement, as the head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). During his time as the head of SNCC, Lewis along with the other five so-called “Big Six” Civil Rights Movements leaders–King, the National Urban League’s Whitney Young Jr., labor leader A. Philip Randolph, CORE’s James Farmer Jr., and the NAACP’s Roy Wilkins–organized the March on Washington at which King delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech. Lewis was one of the more aggressive in pursuit of the cause. In 2009, the New Yorker’s David Remnick reported that other Civil Rights movement leaders toned down Lewis’s speech at the March on Washington because they feared it would aggravate then-President John F. Kennedy’s administration. In its obituary on Lewis Friday night, Politico noted that Lewis later said he was upset at first with the edits to his speech but later was satisfied with the result. “I was angry, but when we were done, I was satisfied,” Lewis later wrote in his book Walking With the Wind. Lewis was instrumental in many other facets of the Civil Rights Movement in addition to the March on Washington.
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View this post on Instagram REMEMBERING JOHN LEWIS: Rep. John Lewis, one of the nation’s most preeminent civil rights figures, died Friday night. He was 80.A post shared by Fox News (@foxnews) on Jul 18, 2020 at 9:48am PDT
REMEMBERING JOHN LEWIS: Rep. John Lewis, one of the nation’s most preeminent civil rights figures, died Friday night. He was 80.
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View this post on Instagram “John Lewis will be remembered as a giant of the civil rights movement whose selflessness and conviction rendered our nation into a more perfect union and his example will inspire generations of Americans.” Vice President Mike Pence released a statement Saturday, paying tribute to Rep. John Lewis, who passed away Friday night at the age of 80.A post shared by Fox News (@foxnews) on Jul 18, 2020 at 6:15pm PDT
“John Lewis will be remembered as a giant of the civil rights movement whose selflessness and conviction rendered our nation into a more perfect union and his example will inspire generations of Americans.” Vice President Mike Pence released a statement Saturday, paying tribute to Rep. John Lewis, who passed away Friday night at the age of 80.
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View this post on Instagram Rep. John Lewis, longtime representative from Georgia and the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, passed away over the weekend. RIP.A post shared by Daily Caller (@dailycaller) on Jul 19, 2020 at 10:02am PDT
Rep. John Lewis, longtime representative from Georgia and the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, passed away over the weekend. RIP.
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