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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: John Lewis (b. 1940)
		Lewis was one of a small group of men and women who protested the segregation of interstate bus terminals in 1961 by traveling in integrated groups through the South.
		In 1963 Lewis was elected chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an Atlanta-based civil rights organization that emerged from the college students' sit-in movement and was devoted to direct action; he remained in the post until 1966.
		When Lewis and others were attacked by white segregationists at a bus station in Montgomery, Alabama, they made national headlines and publicized the plight of blacks under a racially segregated social order.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2742

	John L. Lewis (1880 - 1969)
		John L. Lewis was born in Lucas, Iowa, on Feb.12, 1880, to Tom Lewis, a coal miner from Wales, and Ann Watkins, the daughter of a founder of the local Mormon church.
		Hired as a national organizer and field representative, Lewis served the federation from 1910 to 1916, while working closely with the incumbent UMWA president, John P. White, to defeat socialist and radical insurgents seeking to control the union.
		Lewis lobbied the Illinois legislature on behalf of workers' compensation and mine safety legislation, coming to the attention of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
	www.aflcio.org /aboutaflcio/history/history/lewis.cfm

	IBHOF / John Henry Lewis
		John Henry Lewis was the first black American to win the light heavyweight championship, a title he held for four years.
		Given this early training, Lewis was well-prepared to turn professional at the age of fourteen as a welterweight.
		Lewis was not the first fighter in his family.
	www.ibhof.com /jhlewis.htm

	Congressman John Lewis - Proudly Serving Georgia's 5th Congressional District
		John Lewis is the recipient of numerous awards from imminent national and international institutions, including the Golden Plate Award given by the Academy of Excellence, the Preservation Hero award given by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Capital Award of the National Council of La Raza, the Martin Luther King, Jr.
		John Lewis holds a B.A. in Religion and Philosophy from Fisk University, and he is a graduate of the American Baptist Theological Seminary, both in Nashville, Tennessee.
		John Lewis authored his biography with writer Michael D'Orso, entitled Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (June, 1998).
	www.house.gov /johnlewis/bio.html

	John L. Lewis
		John L. Lewis was born February 12, 1880, to Welsh immigrant parents, in the coal mining camp of Cleveland, Iowa -- a mile east of Lucas.
		The John L. Lewis Commission, organized in 1986, is a non-profit corporation formed to establish a memorial to a famous native some of Lucas, Iowa and to aid in the renovation of this small town.
		Lewis died in June of 1969 and is buried in Springfield, Illinois, in the same cemetery as Abraham Lincoln.
	www.iowaaflcio.org /john_l__lewis.htm

	Reader's Companion to American History - -LEWIS, JOHN L.
		LEWIS, JOHN L., labor leader and president of the United Mine Workers (umw) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (cio).
		Lewis thus enjoyed great success and abysmal failure: he had served as "the great emancipator" for industrial workers during the 1930s and as their "great betrayer" for repudiating Roosevelt in 1940.
		After 1950, however, Lewis brought labor peace to a declining coal industry, steadily improved the material conditions of union members, and won esteem as an apostle of "cooperative capitalism." Lewis cooperated with mine operators because such cooperation stabilized the industry, increased union power, and guaranteed working miners high wages and greater fringe benefits.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_052900_lewisjohnl.htm

	Online NewsHour: Dialogue with Rep. John Lewis -- July 7, 1998
		JOHN LEWIS: On the other side at the foot of the bridge we saw Sheriff Clark, the sheriff of Dallas County in Selma, with his posse.
		JOHN LEWIS: Well, in Selma, Alabama, in March of 1965, about 600 of us decided to take a peaceful, orderly non-violent walk from Selma to Montgomery to dramatize to the nation that people of color wanted the right to vote, to participate in a democratic process.
		JOHN LEWIS: Well, the Supreme Court had issued a decision banning segregation in areas of public transportation, and we decided to test that decision.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/july98/lewis_7-7.html

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		John Lewis was the chairperson of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) formed in Raleigh, North Carolina (1960?).
		In 1960, the day after John Kennedy was elected, Lewis sat in at the Krystal Diner in Nashville and a waitress poured cleansing powder down his back and water over his food; after eating, he went to talk to the manager, who turned a fumigating machine on him.
		John Lewis was also one of the original freedom riders.
	www.expectingrain.com /dok/who/l/lewisjohn.html

	Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. - Lawyers - John F. Lewis
		Lewis was the founding chairman and a leader of the Cleveland Initiative for Education, which raised US$16 million to provide work and college tuition for inner city students through a scholarship program and promoted corporate partnerships with schools in the Cleveland system.
		John F. Lewis has been instrumental in leading the firm’s public labor practice to become one of the largest in the United States.
		Lewis is a member and vice chair of the American Bar Association’s Education Committee and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
	www.ssd.com /lawyers/lawyer_detail.aspx?lawyerid=19553

	President Gerald R. Ford and Congressman John Lewis Honored as Profiles in Courage
		Profile in Courage Award recipients President Gerald Ford and Congressman John Lewis presented silver lanterns by Senator Edward Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy
		Lewis, who at age 23 was also one of the principal organizers of the March on Washington in 1963, was recognized for a lifetime career marked by extraordinary courage, leadership, and commitment to universal human rights.
		The John E Kennedy Profile in Courage Award is presented annually to an elected official who has withstood strong opposition from constituents, powerful interest groups or adversaries to follow what she or he believes is the right course of action.
	www.jfklibrary.org /newsletter_summer2001_01.html

	Interview With Congressman John Lewis
		John Lewis: I was 23 years old, and I had just been elected the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the major civil rights groups.
		John Lewis: When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr.
		John Lewis: When I was growing up, we would sometimes visit the little town of Troy [Alabama].
	teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/articlearchives/honormlk/lewis.htm

	LIFE INTERVIEW: REP. JOHN LEWIS
		John Lewis, civil rights leader (wearing a tan raincoat), and fellow activist Hosea Williams, lead a line of demonstrators through Selma, Alabama, during the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" protest march.
	www.life.com /Life/boomers/lewismarch.html

	News -- John Lewis Urges Students to Make Civil Rights a Practical Reality
		John Lewis (D-Ga.), one of the most important figures of the Civil Rights movement, reminded students and professors at the Georgetown Law Center of the importance of making Civil Rights a practical reality in a speech last Wednesday.
		Lewis, who was arrested more than 40 times for his involvement in the movement, helped achieve the goal of inclusion by organizing the 1965 march from Selma, Ala.
		Lewis spoke to a group of approximately 130 law students and professors on the 12th floor of the Georgetown University Law Center’s Gewirz building about his role in the Civil Rights movement.
	www.thehoya.com /news/012699/news5.htm

	Educate Yourself - John L. Lewis, Part 2
		As we wrap up our story on the United Mine Workers and labor leader John L. Lewis, it's the 1930s and Lewis is feeling his oats as some of the pro-Labor reforms that FDR had instituted aided the UMW (and other unions) in pumping up their membership.
		Lewis was largely responsible for enactment of the latter, as he got coal operators to set aside a "royalty" of $100 a month for a miner's pension fund, a benefit quickly adopted by most other industries.
		Lewis felt as if he had to do something to prove that he was Labor's ultimate force, and, with his huge ego working overtime, he decided to back off on the May deal.
	www.buyandhold.com /bh/en/education/history/2001/johnlewis2.html

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Editorial / Opinion / Op-ed / At a crossroads on gay unions
		John Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Georgia, was one of the original speakers at the 1963 March on Washington and is author of "Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement."
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/10/25/at_a_crossroads_on_gay_unions

	John Lewis: Patriarch
		John Lewis' fame would lie secure in his stature as the pioneer settler of Augusta County.
		She shared all of the triumphs and hardships of John Lewis after their marriage in 1715.
		Margaret Lynn Lewis (1693-1773), reputed descendant of the Laird of Loch Lynn in Scotland (documentation is slim on this lineage) was undoubtedly a woman with a spirit as indomitable as that of her husband.
	lewisgenealogy.com /patriarc.html

	NEA Jazz Masters JohnLewis
		As a composer John Lewis has written for a vast number of musical configurations in a dizzying array of styles, from solo piano to symphonies, ballets to film and television scores.
		Lewis was part of the first wave of what composer Gunther Schuller dubbed the Third Stream -- an effort at forging a third stream through the fusing of the two primary streams of jazz and European classical music.
		Lewis' first extended composition for Gillespie was his 1947 Toccata for Trumpet, which premiered at Carnegie Hall.
	www.iaje.org /bio.asp?ArtistID=1

	John Lewis Gaddis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University (though he teaches neither military nor naval history).
		He is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lewis_Gaddis

	John L. Lewis Portrait Gallery
		Lewis is shown with UMWA vice-president Phil Murray (at right) and UMWA secretary-treasurer Thomas Kennedy (at left) during the 1925 anthracite negotiations.
		Lewis is pictured with AFL president Samuel Gompers on a visit to the White House in 1922.
		Lewis is pictured with Sidney Hillman, president of the Clothing Workers after the CIO organized General Motors in 1937.
	www.umwa.org /history/lewgalry.shtml

	SNCC-People: John Lewis
		John Lewis was an influential SNCC leader and is recognized by most as one of the important leaders of the civil rights movement as a whole.
		Lewis' experience at that point was already widely respected--he had been arrested 24 times as a result of his activism.
		Lewis and others received death threats and were severely beaten by angry mobs.
	www.ibiblio.org /sncc/lewis.html

	John L. Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lewis was considered by some a despotic leader of the Mine Workers: he expelled his political rivals within the UMWA, such as John Brophy and Adolph Germer.
		Lewis continued to be as autocratic as ever within the UMWA: until the passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act in 1959, the UMWA had kept a number of its districts in trusteeship for decades, meaning that Lewis appointed union officers who otherwise would have been elected by the membership.
		Lewis retired as president of the UMWA in 1960 and was succeeded as president by Thomas Kennedy until his death in 1963, when he was succeeded by Lewis-anointed successor W.A. "Tony" Boyle, who was just as dictatorial, but without any of Lewis' leadership skills or vision.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_L._Lewis (978 words)

	Lewis, John Aaron -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		U.S. jazz musician John Lewis was born on May 3, 1920, in La Grange, Ill., and grew up in Albuquerque, N.M. He became the leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet in 1952, as its pianist, and he also composed music for jazz, ballet, cinema, and theater.
		Lewis, John L. From 1920 to 1960 John L. Lewis was president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA).
		"Lewis, John Aaron." Britannica Book of the Year, 2002.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9354197 (978 words)

	www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk
		John Lewis Partnership comments on the decision by Mayor Ken Livingstone to press ahead with his plans to extend the congestion charge into west London.
		John Lewis Partnership results for the six months to 30 July 2005 are available to download.
		The John Lewis Partnership is one of the UK's top ten retail businesses with 27 John Lewis department stores and 168 Waitrose supermarkets.
	www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk (978 words)

	Jazz All About Jazz
		John Lewis, the soft-spoken, dignified music director of the Modern Jazz Quartet, is a highly cultivated, introspective player who attempted to forge a new synthesis of jazz and classical music in the late 50s and 60s.
		Lewis had everyone dress in tuxedos and bow to the audience before they played, offering an eminently dignified appearance, comparable to that of a classical chamber group.
		Lewis and the other musicians organized the band cooperatively, so there was no leader in the usual sense.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /bios/jxlbio.htm (978 words)

	JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS
		JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS
		(1805-1876), British painter, son of F. Lewis, engraver, was born in London.
		He was elected in 1827 associate of the Society of Painters in Water Colors, of which he became full member in 1829 and president in 1855; he resigned in 1858, and was made associate of the Royal Academy in 1859 and academician in 1865.
	31.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LE/LEWIS_JOHN_FREDERICK.htm (978 words)

	JOHN LEWIS
		Lewis had begun to write poetry in 1804, and compiled a volume of poems by himself, his son John Aloncure Lewis (born May 11, 1820 and died March 21, 1845), Mrs.
		John Lewis was born near Belle Air, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, February 25, 1784.
		469-70; John M. McAllister and Lura B. Tandy, Genealogies of the Lewis and Kindred Families, Columbia, Mo., 1906, 138-43; F.
	www.niulib.niu.edu /badndp/lewis_john.html (978 words)

	Today in History: March 7
		John Lewis went on to serve as Director of the Voter Education Project, a program which eventually added nearly four million minorities to the voter rolls.
		John Lewis (on right in trench coat) and Hosea Williams (on the left) lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
		John Lewis headed SNCC's voter registration effort and, on March 7, he and fellow activist Hosea Williams led the group of silent marchers from the Brown Chapel AME Church to the foot of the Pettus bridge and into the event soon known as "Bloody Sunday."
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/mar07.html (978 words)

	The Phoenix Online - Congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis to give talk tomorrow
		Through his capacity at the head of this organization, Lewis was soon recognized as one of the “Big Six,” along with fellow non-violent civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., who would work with President John F. Kennedy to plan the “March on Washington” in August 1963.
		Lewis left SNCC in 1966 and went on to hold a variety of positions in voter registration, eventually becoming the director of the Voter Education Project, which, during his tenure, helped to register four million minority voters.
		Lewis is currently serving his eighth term in this capacity and remains an active political figure, serving as a member of the House Committee of Ways and Means, the Democratic Steering Committee, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Committee to Support Writers and Journalists and as the Chief Deputy Democratic Whip.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /org/phoenix/2001/2001-11-08/news/11516.html (978 words)

	John L. Lewis
		But as historian Robert H. Zieger observes in John L. Lewis, he didn't create the discontent of his workers, but took a cue from their unhappiness.
		Lewis was the greatest of the labor leaders who came to prominence in the 1930s and the 1940s.
		The AF of L and the CIO ñ which Lewis began ñ had pledged not to strike during the war, so when Lewis led the 1943 strike of 500,000 coal miners, their leaders feared he was risking labor's reputation.
	www.heroism.org /class/1940/lewis.htm (978 words)

	John Henry Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Henry Lewis (1914-1974) was a boxer who was world Light Heavyweight champion.
		Lewis fought four more times, winning three and drawing one, before getting a chance at avenging his loss to Rosenbloom in 1933, and he won a 10 round decision in their rematch, and again in their third match.
		One interesting fact of his is that Lewis was managed by a gambler and racketeer of the 1930s: Gus Greenlee, a man who became very important to baseball's Negro Leagues as a commissioner and team owner.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Henry_Lewis (625 words)

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