John Lewis was a civil rights leader and longtime member of Congress who never stopped calling for "good trouble."
He was a Freedom Rider, chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and spoke at the 1963 March on Washington. On March 7, 1965, he led marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
Key Facts
- Lived: 1940 to 2020
- Represented Georgia in Congress from 1987 to 2020
- Beaten on Bloody Sunday in Selma, 1965
- Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011
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