John Lewis honored at the March on Washinton
by Rafael Salazar
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John Lewis honored at the March on Washinton
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Rafael Salazar
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Mixed Media - Digital Fine Art
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John Lewis honored at the March on Washinton, D.C
Portrait Study Tribute series by Rafael Salazar
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"The road ahead, it is not going to be easy," Harris said. "But if we work together to challenge every instinct our nation has to return to the status quo, and combine the wisdom with longtime warriors for justice with the creative energy of the young leaders today, we have an opportunity to make history right here and right now." Kamala Harris, said at Friday's March on Washington 2020.
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John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020 from pancreatic cancer. Lewis served as the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966.
Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington and the last surviving one at the time of his death. 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 Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. In an incident which became known as Bloody Sunday, armed Alabama police attacked unarmed civil rights demonstrators, including Lewis, Hosea Williams, and Amelia Boynton.
A member of the Democratic Party, Lewis was first elected to Congress in 1986 and served for 17 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Due to his length of service, he became the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. The district he represented includes the northern three-quarters of Atlanta.
He was a leader of the Democratic Party in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1991 as a Chief Deputy Whip and from 2003 as Senior Chief Deputy Whip. Lewis received many honorary degrees and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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