John Lewis carried across Edmund Pettus Bridge for last time
The body of the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on Sunday was escorted across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama for the last time in a tribute to the civil rights icon’s legacy.
Read moreJohn Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80
Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who then carried a mantle of moral authority into Congress, died on Friday. He was 80.