Friday, July 17, 2020

John Lewis, U.S. congressman and civil rights icon, dead at 80

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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.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/john-lewis-obit-1.5654707?cmp=rss

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