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July 26, 2020 | 11:30 AM

In Selma, a ‘Final Crossing’ for John Lewis across the Edmund Pettis Bridge

In March of 1965, a 25-year-old Lewis and hundreds of other civil rights advocates planned to march from Selma to Montgomery to draw attention to the need for voting rights in the state.

By NPR
July 24, 2020 | 5:30 AM

Rep. John Lewis will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, with an outdoor public viewing

By NPR
July 18, 2020 | 8:31 AM

Rep. John Lewis, a force in the Civil Rights Movement, dead at 80

“The world has lost a legend; the civil rights movement has lost an icon”

By NPR

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January 17, 2020 | 3:27 PM

Rep. John Lewis’ fight for civil rights began with a letter to Martin Luther King Jr.

Before Rep. John Lewis dedicated his life to fighting for racial equality, he grew up in Troy, Ala., with dreams of becoming a different kind of orator.

By Kerrie Hillman and Aisha Turner/StoryCorps and Emma Bowman/NPR
December 30, 2019 | 9:36 AM

Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis to start treatment for pancreatic cancer

Georgia Rep. John Lewis, the only remaining survivor of the “Big Six” leaders who spearheaded the 1960s push for civil rights, vowed to fight the disease with the same vigor with which he fought for racial equality.

By Emma Bowman/NPR