He was experiencing. Lewis represented georgias fifth Congressional District in serving his 17th term in the house. Congressman john lewis and political career spanning more than four decades free to fox news correspondent Jonathan Serrie taking a look back at his long and distinguished career. Hate is too much of a burden to bear. America lost one of the most iconic figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Its close to being a saint. Is anybody i have lived with. February 21, 1940, he was born into a family of sharecroppers of alabama. Growing up in the south he became acutely aware of Racial Injustice and how inspirational and the sermons of the dr. Martin luther king jr. As a young man he became chairman of sncc, the student nonviolent coordinating committee. He was the youngest to speaker of the 1963 march on washington. He helped to lead a march across the edmond bridge in selma, alabama. He suffered a fractured skull when state troopers used force to break up the peaceful demonstrat