February 21, 1940: John Lewis Born
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Suggested Readings
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988).
Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998).
David Halberstam, The Children (New York: Random House, 1998).
John Lewis with Michael D'Orso, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998).
“John Lewis (b. 1940),” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2742&sug=y
Official Congressional Page of John Lewis: http://johnlewis.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid= 31
People of SNCC: http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/lewis.html
NPR interview with John Lewis: http://www.npr.org/yourturn/chats/990114.lewis.html
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000287
PBS American Experience: Freedom Riders http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
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Image Credits
A Young Marcher, Archive Photos Getty Images
March on Washington © Corbis
Civil Rights Leader John Lewis Attacked by Police © Bettmann/Corbis
Eddie and Willie Mae Lewis family Image courtesy of John Lewis
Fisk University Jubilee Hall Image courtesy of Fisk University Franklin Library, Special Collections
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Freedom Riders bus, 1961 Courtesy of the Associated Press Images
John Lewis being arrested in Nashville, April 1964 © Bettman/Corbis
John Lewis with Presidential Medal of Honor Image courtesy of the Office of the Congressman John Lewis
John Lewis, chairman of SNCC, and Hosea Williams, July 1965 © Bettman/Corbis
John Lewis, Julian Bond, Earl Graves Image courtesy of the Julian Bond papers [manuscript], circa 1943-2006 (MSS 13347) University of Virginia
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John Robert Lewis Image courtesy of John Lewis
Leading a voter registration tour Image courtesy of John Lewis
March on Washington, 08/28/1963 Accessed from the National Archives “Our Documents” http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=96
March on Washington, HPC-001972 Courtesy of National Park Services
March on Washington Lincoln Monument, HPC-001915 Courtesy of National Park Services
Savoring the victory with Lilian and John Miles, 1986 Image courtesy of John Lewis
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Willie Mae Carter Lewis Image courtesy of John Lewis
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