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John Lewis
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American politician and civil rights leader (1940–2020)
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 21 Feb 1940
- Died
- 17 Jul 2020
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Walking with the wind
- JOHN LEWIS - MARCH. LIBRO UNO
- Better Life for Their Children
- March
- Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement
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Film & TV
Acting · Troy, Alabama, USA
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American civil rights leader and politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party and was the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death. He was also the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. The district he served includes the northern three-fourths of Atlanta. Lewis, who as…
Known for
- Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story — Self2021
- Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union — Himself2021
- John Lewis: Good Trouble — Self2020
- The Soul of America — Self (archive footage)2020
- With Drawn Arms — Self2020
- Enslaved — Self2020
- America's Library — Self2018
- King in the Wilderness — Self2018
- Bobby Kennedy for President — Self2018
- The Obama Years: The Power of Words — Self - Congressman and Civil Rights Advocate2017
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1940
- Active to
- 2020
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 61,261
- Total plays
- 352,818
Tags
John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. John Lewis was born in La Grange, Illinois, and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and began learning classical music and piano at the age of seven. His family was musical and had a family band that allowed him to play frequently and he also played in a Boy Scout music group. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Lewis">Read more o
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT
· 1951 · cited 248,683x
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,574x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,691x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,351x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,710x
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Quotes
- “Next time we march we may have to keep going when we get to Montgomery. We may have to on to Washington.”
- “I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.”
- “I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.”
- “We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.”
- “A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option. For peace cannot exist where justice is not served. I urge each and everyone of our colleagues to support this legislation.”
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Key facts
- Leader
- Dick Gephardt , Nancy Pelosi
- Preceded by
- David Bonior (Chief Deputy Whip)
- Succeeded by
- G. K. Butterfield
- Born
- John Robert Lewis , ( 1940-02-21 ) February 21, 1940, Pike County, Alabama , U.S.
- Died
- July 17, 2020 (2020-07-17) (aged 80), Atlanta , Georgia, U.S.
- Resting place
- South-View Cemetery
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Lillian Miles ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1968 ; died 2012 )
- Education
- American Baptist College ( BA ) Fisk University ( BA )
- Occupation
- Civil rights activist Politician
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- johnlewis.house.gov
- Image
- John Lewis-2006 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- Commons category
- John Lewis (American politician)
- date of birth
- 1940-02-21
- name in native language
- John Lewis
- birth name
- John Robert Lewis
- date of death
- 2020-07-17
- social media followers
- 1114243
- P10632
- John Lewis
- number of viewers/listeners
- 611736
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Encyclopedic overview
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American civil rights activist and statesman who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.
He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins and the Freedom Rides, was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966, and was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Fulfilling 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 first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where, in an incident that became known as Bloody Sunday, state troopers and police attacked Lewis and the other marchers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Lewis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.