The body of the late US civil rights icon John Lewis has been carried over Selma's historic Edmund Pettus Bridge for a final time. On 7 March 1965, known as "Bloody Sunday", Lewis and other ...

including late Congressman John Lewis, gathered for a peaceful march for voting rights in Selma. But that peace was shattered on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by Alabama State Troopers. “They came ...

on “Bloody Sunday,” John Lewis and dozens of others were beaten while crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge. After an aborted second attempt, thousands had started out from Selma on March 21.

The son of Alabama sharecroppers, John Lewis became a major leader in ... the Freedom Rides, and the Selma-to-Montgomery march. As chair of SNCC he coordinated voter registration and community ...

John Lewis: A Life' will look back on the late ... Jr.'s journey to lead the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Years before his death, Lewis also published a memoir reflecting on his ...

John Lewis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer ... He was also a leader at the march in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, which led to the eventual passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

But the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, named for the late U.S. representative from Georgia and civil rights activist who put his life on the line in Selma, Ala., for voting rights for all ...

Among them were Hosea Williams, John Lewis and local activist Amelia Boynton ... from workshops and panels to a multiday march from Selma to Montgomery. On Friday, U.S. Rep.