Civil Rights Icon, Long-Time Representative John Lewis Dies

Civil Rights Icon, Long-Time Representative John Lewis Dies

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John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman, has died after a six-month battle with cancer, according to a statement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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