Senator Durbin Tribute to Representative John Lewis
Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) spoke on the Senate floor about the life and legacy of Representative John Lewis…
As part of Representative John Lewis' (D-GA) procession to the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery, a caisson carried his casket across… read more
As part of Representative John Lewis' (D-GA) procession to the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery, a caisson carried his casket across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. The congressman and civil rights leader on March 7, 1965, was one of many demonstrators beaten by police as they marched from Selma to Montgomery in what has become known as Bloody Sunday. Representative Lewis died on July 17, 2020. close
Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) spoke on the Senate floor about the life and legacy of Representative John Lewis…
Peggy Wallace Kennedy, the author of The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation, talked about her segregationist…
In March of 1965, civil rights activists and religious leaders marched from Selma to Montgomery to demand African Americans be given the…
General Edmund Pettus, the namesake for the bridge at the beginning of the route from Selma to Montgomery, was a Civil War General and…