John Lewis: A Life' will look back on the late politician's career ... beginning with his childhood in rural Alabama and ending with his service in the House of Representatives.

John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, in 1940. He would listen to the broadcasts of Martin Luther King Jr. as a boy during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and in 1960, took part in his ...

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...