Congressman
Civil rights activist
Writer
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom
by President Barack Obama in 2011
February 21, 1940 – July
17, 2020
Across That Bridge
(2012); Carry On (2021); Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial
Justice (2006); March: Book One (2013); March: Book Three (2016); March: Book Two
(2015); Run: Book One (2021); Walking with the Wind (1998).