John Lewis first shows up in Jonathan Eig’s trenchant biography as the kind of courageous and determined civil rights activist that Martin Luther King Jr., a brilliant preacher but no organizer, ...

Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther ... just age 35, King became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Another Georgian who was key in the movement was John Lewis.

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin ...

The materials are scheduled to be unsealed in 2027, but President Trump signed an executive order in January aimed at moving ...

as Well' John Lewis Wrote Tributes to His Wife and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Posthumous Book: 'I Miss Her' Ga. High School Apologizes for Racist Yearbook Page Featuring MLK Jr: 'It Hurts Me to ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream ... In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law Congressman John Lewis and Sen. Harris Wofford’s legislation making ...

When Americans celebrated the inaugural Martin Luther ... quote King. The commercialization and standardization of King’s legacy did not go uncontested. In January 1995, Rep. John Lewis (D ...

It has been edited for length and content. Civil rights leaders including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis and labor luminaries Walter Reuther and James Hoffa paused Tuesday to bury ...

Nearly six decades after John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and others fought "Jim Crow" laws that blocked some Americans from the ballot box, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ...