John Lewis 2023 Forever Stamps — Black Heritage Commemorative, First-Class Postage

John Lewis was present at most of the turning points of the Civil Rights Movement and usually near the front of them: the face of the Nashville Student Movement, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an original Freedom Rider, and one of the keynote speakers at the 1963 March on Washington. Hatred and violence did not move him off the position he summed up as "good trouble."

Thirty years in Congress

Elected to represent Georgia in the U.S. House in 1986, he spent more than three decades defending and extending the civil rights gains he had helped win in the 1960s, never abandoning his commitment to nonviolent protest.

He assembled the support that carried the Civil Rights Act of 1991. He sponsored the legislation creating the 54-mile Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail. And he worked for over ten years to put the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall.

Other service and recognition

He led the Voter Education Project as executive director, served as associate director of ACTION — the federal agency overseeing the Peace Corps and VISTA — and sat on the Atlanta City Council. He wrote several bestsellers, including the March comic book series and the autobiography Walking With the Wind.

More than 50 honorary degrees followed. Time called him a saint; his colleagues called him the conscience of the Congress. President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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