He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district, serving in his 17th term in the House, having served since 1987. "It will be the first (inauguration) that I miss since I've been in Congress. [34], In 1963, when Charles McDew stepped down as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis, a founding member, was elected to take over. [266] Lewis also recounted his deep sorrow following the 1968 assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..[267]. [21], While a student, Lewis was invited to attend nonviolence workshops held at Clark Memorial United Methodist Church by the Rev. The next year he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. John Lewis said he fell in love with his son the very first time he saw him. The bill won bipartisan support, and President George W. Bush signed the bill to establish the museum, with the Smithsonian's Board of Regents to establish the location. 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"[141][142], In 2013, Lewis became the first member of Congress to write a graphic novel, with the launch of a trilogy titled March. [202], Lewis's death in July 2020 has given rise to support for renaming the historically significant Pettus bridge in Lewis's honor, an idea previously floated years ago. But when copies of the speech were distributed on August 27, the other chairs of the march insisted that it be revised. [25], In the South, Lewis and other nonviolent Freedom Riders were beaten by angry mobs and arrested. Sciences, Culinary Arts and Personal The Riders reorganized and rode to Montgomery, where they were met with more violence. Did the Freedom Riders encounter resistance? [94], In March 2003, Lewis spoke to a crowd of 30,000 in Oregon during an anti-war protest before the start of the Iraq War. [98], At first, Lewis supported Hillary Clinton, endorsing her presidential campaign on October 12, 2007. 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