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Rep. John Lewis’ Casket Crosses Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge

Tweet Pint it Share John Lewis’ casket was just taken from the historic Brown Chapel AME Church here in Selma and placed onto a horse-drawn carriage, which will now carry his body one last time across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where Lewis was infamously beaten in 1965. The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., is […]

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Congressman & Civil Rights Legend John Lewis Has Died @ Age 80

Tweet Pint it Share Civil rights legend and Georgia congressman Rep. John Lewis has died at the age of 80 at his home in Atlanta, ABC News confirmed Friday night. John Lewis, an icon in civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who […]

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