John Lewis was a long-serving U.S. representative from Georgia who was one of the most prominent leaders of the American civil rights movement.
He was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, and he was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966.
Lewis was one of the primary organizers of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and he led the famous 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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