Six leaders of the nation’s largest black civil rights organizations meet in New York’s Hotel Roosevelt in July 1963 to plan a civil rights march on Washington. From left, are: John Lewis, chairman, Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee; Whitney Young, national director, Urban League; A. Philip Randolph, president of the Negro American Labor Council; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president Southern Christian Leadership Conference; James Farmer, Congress of Racial Equality director; and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary, NAACP. | Harry Harris/AP Photo President Kennedy poses in August 1963 at the White House with a group of leaders of the March on Washington. From left, Whitney Young, National Urban League; Dr. Martin Luther King, Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, American Jewish Congress; Dr. Eugene P. Donnaly, National Council of Churches; A. Philip Randolph, AFL-CIO vice president; Kennedy; Walter Reuther, Unidted Auto Workers; Vice President Lyndon Johnson, rear, and Roy Wilkins, NAACP. | AP Photo Lewis speaks during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., in June 1964. He called on President Lyndon Johnson to protect summer volunteers in Mississippi and said civil rights workers face harassment arrests and outright violence in Mississippi. | Jim Bourdier/AP Photo From left, Lewis, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Rev. Andrew Young lead a procession behind the casket of Jimmy Lee Jackson during a funeral service in Marion, Ala., in March 1965. Jackson was slain during protests in Selma. | AP Photo Then-Atlanta Councilman Lewis holds the March 1965 issue of Life Magazine in his office in Atlanta in August 1986. The cover photo shows Lewis leading the first Selma, Ala., civil rights march with Hosea Williams. | Ric Feld/AP Photo Fifth Congressional District Democratic candidates Julian Bond (left) and Lewis converse in August 1986 before taping an Atlanta Journal-Constitution show in Atlanta on Aug. 29, 1986. | Ric Feld/AP Photo Lewis talks on the telephone from his Atlanta hotel room in September 1986 prior to claiming victory by defeating Julian Bond in a runoff election for the fifth Congressional District seat in Georgia. The two were civil rights movement allies. | Linda Shaeffer/AP Photo Lewis, left, and his wife, Lillian, holding hands, lead a march of supporters from his campaign headquarters to an Atlanta hotel for a victory party after he defeated Julian Bond in a run-off election for Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District seat in Atlanta in September 1986. | Linda Schaeffer/AP Photo Lewis speaks during a news conference held to unveil legislation concerning a National Museum of African American History and Culture on Capitol Hill in May 2003. | Gerald Herbert/AP Photo From left, Rev. Al Sharpton, Evelyn Lowery, the Rev. Joseph Lowery and Lewis march in Atlanta to mark the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech in August 2003. | John Bazemore/AP Photo Lewis is comforted by Coretta Scott King after the unveiling of a commemorative granite engraving in honor of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in August 2003. | Paul J.Richards/AFP/Getty Images Lewis, left, walks with Sen. Mike Dewine as he leads a group of senators on a tour of historic civil rights locations in Alabama in February 2004. | Dave Martin/AP Photo Lewis speaks during a media conference on Capitol Hill in May 2006. The bipartisan group of House and Senate officials met to voice support for legislation to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act for an additional 25 years. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images Lewis, overcome with emotion, center, with Yolanda King, second from left, and Rev. Al Sharpton, left, take part in the ground-breaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington in November 2006. | Lawrence Jackson/AP Photo From left, Brown Chapel AME Church pastor James Jackson, then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, Lewis and Rev. Clete Kiley hold hands and sing at the end of a church service in March 2007 in Selma, Alabama. | Rob Carr/AP Photo Sen. Hillary Clinton waves as she and Lewis meet during a campaign stop in Atlanta where he announced his support for Clinton in October 2007. Lewis dropped his support for Clinton’s presidential bid in February 2008 in favor of then-Sen. Barack Obama. | John Amis/AP photo The Dalai Lama (right) sits with Lewis during a public speech in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in October 2007. | John Amis/AP Photo Lewis is led away in handcuffs by a Secret Service officer during an act of civil disobedience to protest the Sudanese government’s ongoing genocide in Darfur in April 2009 outside the Sudan embassy in Washington, D.C. | Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images Then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Lewis share a laugh at a get-out-the-vote volunteer canvass kickoff event in Las Vegas in October 2010. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Lewis in February 2011. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo Vice President Joe Biden and John Lewis lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in March 2013. They were commemorating the 48th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." | Dave Martin/AP Photo President Barack Obama embraces Lewis near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in March 2015. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looks on as Lewis speaks at a get-out-the-caucus event at a Las Vegas community center in February 2016. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images Lewis thanks supporters during a rally against gun violence with fellow Democrats at the U.S. Capitol in October 2017. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images From left, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, President of CASA in Action Gustavo Torres, Lewis, Rep. Raul Grijalva and Rep. Judy Chu march to the headquarters of U.S. Customs and Border Protection during a protest in June 2018 in Washington. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
