Atlanta Journal-Constitution: John Lewis bio a ‘tremendous’ look back at the life of a hero
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.
John Lewis bio a ‘tremendous’ look back at the life of a hero
The New Yorker: How John Lewis Put a Legacy of Heroism to Use
The New York Times: How John Lewis Became a Moral Force in America
In his new biography, David Greenberg tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative. John Lewis during a sit-in in Nashville in 1964.Credit...Danny ...
Los Angeles Daily News: Civil rights hero John Lewis celebrated in David Greenberg’s biography
Even before his skull was fractured by an Alabama state trooper during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march, John Lewis had, along with Martin Luther King Jr., become the personification of nonviolence ...
John Lewis (second from right) with other leaders of the March on Washington in 1963. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/U.S. National Archives and Records “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” was ...