1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Congressman John R. Lewis Election Day Act of 2020 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) John Robert Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, near Troy, Alabama, the son of sharecroppers in the segregated South. (2) Lewis was ordained as a Baptist minister after graduating from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, and received a bachelor’s degree in religion and philosophy from Fisk University. (3) As a student, Lewis learned nonviolent civil disobedience from the Reverend James Lawson and participated in the Nashville Student Movement, organizing sit-ins at segregated lunch counters and participating in other civil rights events. (4) Lewis was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, who traveled through southern states in 1961 to pressure the enforcement of the Boynton v. Virginia Supreme Court case that declared segregated interstate bus travel unconstitutional. (5) As a Freedom Rider, Lewis was— (A) assaulted while attempting to enter a Whites-only waiting room in Rock Hill, South Carolina; (B) on a bus that was fire-bombed by the Ku Klux Klan outside Anniston, Alabama; (C) among the Freedom Riders beaten with bats, pipes, and chains in Birmingham, Alabama; (D) hit in the head and left bleeding and unconscious outside a Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, Alabama