Friday, July 17, 2020

John Lewis, civil rights pioneer and congressman, dies at 80

John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80.



from https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/john-lewis-civil-rights-pioneer-and-congressman-dies-at-80-2076295/

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