In 1963, he returned to the United States and thus began his academic career that spanned five decades. After one semester of law school at the University of Michigan, he left to earn a master’s degree in history at Columbia University, and then traveled to England to earn his doctorate in modern European history at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1962.Īfter he completed 18 months of service in the United States Army, he landed his first teaching appointment as a lecturer at the University of Ghana. Du Bois.Īt age 15, Lewis entered Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1956. Lewis recalled that while living with his family in the South, he had the pleasure of dining with a number of distinguished African Americans such as Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., concert singer Marian Anderson, NAACP President Walter White, future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and civil rights activists Channing Tobias and W. He attended private schools in Little Rock and Xenia, Ohio, and public high school in Atlanta, Georgia.
He was born on in Little Rock, Arkansas to John Henry Lewis, Sr., a Yale Divinity School graduate and college president, and the former Alice Urnestine Bell, a public school math teacher. Lewis is a twice Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.
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