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By boycotting/protesting the January 20, 2017 presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, it was the first inauguration he had missed in more than three decades.

His last two public appearances before his death, were at the Black Lives Matter mural on 16th Street NW, less than one block from the White House with Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser; and at an online town hall meeting with President Barack Obama.

He and his wife Lillian were married for almost 50 years when she died in 2012. Together, John and Lillian Lewis had one child, a son named John-Miles Lewis, who they adopted when John-Miles was just two months old in 1976. They named him John-Miles in recognition of Lillian Lewis' maiden name, plus the miles that John Lewis had traveled and marched as a civil rights activist. John Lewis felt it was very important to instill in his son how important the past is, and about knowing our history. John-Miles used the passion for the past that he learned from his father and put it into his artistic career as a hip hop artist which began with the first hip hop song he wrote (while in the third grade) and continued as a composer, singer, and performer of hip hop into the twenty-first century, including writing, singing, and publicly performing a song he called "Political Behavior." John Miles Lewis said the song was about his dad's and his friends' pasts and the political movement they were involved in. In a quote which appeared in the Washington Post newspaper, John Lewis said that he supported his son's career, "as long as he was helping sensitize and educate his generation.".

John Lewis was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian (non-military) honor, by President Barack Obama on February 15, 2011 at the White House in a ceremony in the East Room. There were fourteen other Presidential Medal of Freedom award honorees that day, including former President George Bush; legendary St. Louis Cardinal outfielder/first baseman, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame superstar Stan Musial; celebrated author, poet, educator, producer, actress, filmmaker, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou; legendary investor, industrialist, and philanthropist Warren Buffett; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; Natural Resources Defense Council co-founder John H. Adams; renowned artist Jasper Johns; superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma; former Boston Celtics' Captain and NBA Hall of Fame inductee Bill Russell; former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, philanthropist, and last surviving JFK sibling Jean Kennedy Smith; and others.

Recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for Lifetime Achievement. [2001]

During the second session (1988) of his first term in Congress, John Lewis introduced a bill to create a National Museum of African American History (what would become the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture), and the bill was defeated. Lewis introduced new bills to create the African American History museum in each of the two sessions of the seven succeeding congresses, for a total of fifteen times, usually passing the house, but being defeated in the U.S. Senate, until 2003, when conservative U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduced a similar bill in the Senate, and when the bill passed both houses of Congress, after sixteen years, President George W. Bush signed the bill into law in 2003. It took another twelve plus years to get designed and built, but John Lewis proudly attended the opening and dedication of the new museum. located on the National Mall, with the keynote speech being given by the first African American President, Barack Obama.

Was the U.S. Representative from Georgia's 5th Congressional District from January 3, 1987 until the day he died, July 17, 2020.

Was a member of the Atlanta City Council from 1981 to 1986.

Had his skull fractured by a state trooper, thereby shedding blood left behind on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on what was known as Bloody Sunday during the 1965 voting rights protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

(1963-1966) Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (commonly known as SNCC, pronounced as "snick").

Graduated from the American Baptist Theological Seminary, in Nashville, Tennessee in 1961 with a bachelor's degree in theology. And, graduated from Fisk University (one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, often referred to as HBCUs), in Nashville, Tennessee in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in religion and philosophy.

Died the same day as civil rights activist Reverend Dr. C.T. Vivian, also in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Considered two of the last remaining giants of the 1950s and 1960s Black Civil Rights movement.

John Lewis was born on February 21, 1940 in Troy, Alabama, USA as John Robert Lewis. He was married to Lillian Miles.