Remembering the life of John Lewis

Six leaders of the nation's largest black civil rights organizations meet in New York's Hotel Roosevelt in July 1963 to plan a civil rights march on Washington. From left, are: John Lewis, chairman, Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee; Whitney Young, national director, Urban League; A. Philip Randolph, president of the Negro American Labor Council; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president Southern Christian Leadership Conference; James Farmer, Congress of Racial Equality director; and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | Harry Harris/AP Photo

President Kennedy poses in August 1963 at the White House with a group of leaders of the March on Washington. From left, Whitney Young, National Urban League; Dr. Martin Luther King, Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, American Jewish Congress; Dr. Eugene P. Donnaly, National Council of Churches; A. Philip Randolph, AFL-CIO vice president; Kennedy; Walter Reuther, Unidted Auto Workers; Vice-President Johnson, rear, and Roy Wilkins, NAACP. | AP Photo

Civil rights leader John Lewis speaks during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., in June 1964. He called on President Lyndon Johnson to protect summer volunteers in Mississippi and said civil rights workers face harassment arrests and outright violence in Mississippi. | Jim Bourdier/AP Photo

From left, John Lewis, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Rev. Andrew Young lead a procession behind the casket of Jimmy Lee Jackson during a funeral service in Marion, Ala., in March 1965. | AP Photo

Then-Atlanta Councilman John Lewis holds the March 1965 issue of Life Magazine in his office in Atlanta, Ga., in Aug. 1986. The cover photo shows Lewis leading the first Selma, Ala., civil rights march with Hosea Williams. Lewis, an Alabama sharecropper's son, suffered brutal beatings and humiliating sentences in the five years preceding the Voting Rights Act. | Ric Feld/AP Photo

U.S. Fifth Congressional District Democratic candidates Sen. Julian Bond, left, and former Atlanta City Councilman John Lewis, center, converse in Aug. 1986 as they are wired for sound by Mary Brennan before taping of an Atlanta Journal-Constitution Video Edition "Perspective" show in Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 29, 1986. | Ric Feld/AP Photo

John Lewis talks on the telephone from his Atlanta hotel room in Sept. 1986 prior to claiming victory by defeating Julian Bond in a runoff election for the fifth Congressional District seat in Georgia. The two were civil rights movement allies. | Linda Shaeffer/AP Photo

John Lewis, left, and his wife, Lillian, holding hands, lead a march of supporters from his campaign headquarters to an Atlanta hotel for a victory party after he defeated Julian Bond in a run-off election for Georgia's Fifth Congressional District seat in Atlanta, Ga., in Sept.1986. | Linda Schaeffer/AP Photo

Rep. John Lewis speaks during a news conference held to unveil legislation concerning a National Museum of African American History and Culture on Capitol Hill in May 2003. | Gerald Herbert/AP Photo

From left, Rev. Al Sharpton, Evelyn Lowery, the Rev. Joseph Lowery and Rep. John Lewis march to mark the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Aug. 2003 in Atlanta. | John Bazemore/AP Photo

Rep. John Lewis is comforted by Coretta Scott King after the unveiling of a commemorative granite engraving in honor of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Aug. 2003 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where Dr. King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. | Paul J.Richards/AFP/Getty Images

Rep. John Lewis, left, explains to then-Sen. Mike Dewine about the events that took place in 1965 when marchers were beaten by Alabama State Troopers when they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., during what became known as "Bloody Sunday." Lewis was giving a group of senators a tour of historic civil rights locations in Alabama in Feb. 2004. | Dave Martin/AP Photo

Rep. John Lewis speaks during a media conference on Capitol Hill in May 2006. The bipartisan group of House and Senate officials met to voice support for legislation to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act for an additional 25 years. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Rep. John Lewis, overcome with emotion, center, with Yolanda King, second from left, and Rev. Al Sharpton, left, take part in the ground-breaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington in Nov. 2006. | Lawrence Jackson/AP Photo

From left, Brown Chapel AME Church pastor James Jackson, then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, Rep. John Lewis and Rev. Clete Kiley hold hands and sing at the end of a church service in March 2007 in Selma, Ala. | Rob Carr/AP Photo

Sen. Hillary Clinton, left, waves as she and Rep. John Lewis meet during a campaign stop in Atlanta where he announced his support for Clinton in Oct. 2007. Lewis dropped his support for Clinton's presidential bid in Feb. 2008 in favor of then-Sen. Barack Obama. | John Amis/AP photo

The Dalai Lama, right, sits with Rep. John Lewis during a public speech in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in Oct. 2007. | John Amis/AP Photo

Rep. John Lewis is led away in handcuffs by a Secret Service officer during an act of civil disobedience to protest the Sudanese government's ongoing genocide in Darfur in April 2009 outside the Sudan embassy in Washington, D.C. | Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images

Then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Rep. John Lewis share a laugh at a get-out-the-vote volunteer canvass kickoff event in Las Vegas, Nev., in Oct. 2010. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rep. John Lewis in Feb. 2011, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo

Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Rep. John Lewis lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in March 2013. They were commemorating the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when police officers beat marchers when they crossed the bridge on a march from Selma to Montgomery. | Dave Martin/AP Photo

President Barack Obama embraces Rep. John Lewis after Lewis introduced the president with an emotional speech by the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in March 2015. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Britain's Prince Charles and Rep. John Lewis visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in March 2015 in Washington, D.C. | Mandel Ngan-Pool/Getty Images

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looks on as Rep. John Lewis speaks on her behalf at a get-out-the-caucus event at a Las Vegas community center in February 2016. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Rep. John Lewis thanks supporters during a rally against gun violence with fellow Democrats at the U.S. Capitol in October 2017. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

From left, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, President of CASA in Action Gustavo Torres, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Raul Grijalva and Rep. Judy Chu march to the headquarters of U.S. Customs and Border Protection during a protest in June 2018 in Washington. | Alex Wong/Getty Images

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