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John Lewis

U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966

United States · 1940–2020

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Served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia from 1987 until his death in 2020. Chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was one of the original Freedom Riders, and led the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where he was badly beaten.

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Jim Lawson. Jim Lawson was an unbelievable human being. Born in Ohio. He was a pacifist. He studied Gandhi. He was part of the Methodist Student Movement. He lived in India. He became an organizer for FOR, the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Recorded Julian Bond, Explorations in Black Leadership interview, Explorations in Black Leadership, University of Virginia source ↗

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