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Body of Rep. John Lewis Makes Final Journey Across the Edmund Pettus Bridge

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  This morning, a caisson bearing the body of Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, as people in the city said goodbye to the civil rights icon who helped change the course of the nation. Today’s journey began at the historic Brown Chapel AME Church, where many events of the civil rights movement of the 1960s…

Details of the Life and Death of Rep. John Lewis

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John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in Selma in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died on Friday, July 17. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called him “one of the greatest heroes of American history.”…