John Lewis, second from left, marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery in March 1965 with leaders including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (William Lovelace/Getty Images) John Lewis, the civil rights ...

John Lewis grew up in an Alabama family so poor that he and his young cousins once had to shuttle from room to room, acting as “ballast” to keep their aunt’s house from blowing away in a windstorm.

ATLANTA — An upcoming biography of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis will draw upon hundreds of interviews, along with the civil rights activist's FBI files and materials from a planned book that was ...

This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows “John Lewis: A Life” by David Greenberg. (Simon & Schuster via AP) In “John Lewis: A Life,” David Greenberg recounts how the late Democratic ...

"HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON: JOHN LEWIS AND THE POWER OF HOPE" by Jon Meacham (Random House, 368 pages, $30). Just over a month after John Lewis died from pancreatic cancer at age 80, noted biographer ...

When civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia died last month, so did a big piece of America. Lewis was the rarest of things — a politician who was roundly admired by Americans of ...

John Lewis, the civil rights activist who would go on to become a long-serving congressman and whose death this summer provoked a national outpouring of grief, woke up in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965 ...

ATLANTA - An upcoming biography of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis will draw upon hundreds of interviews, along with the civil rights activist's FBI files and materials from a planned book that was ...