US congresssman John Lewis, civil rights icon, dead at 80

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Lewis had stepped away from his congressional duties in recent months, as he underwent treatment for cancer, but returned in June to walk in Black Lives Matter Plaza, the renamed intersection near the White House walk.

WASHINGTON – John Lewis, the civil rights warrior who marched with Martin Luther King Jr and was nearly killed in police beatings before serving for decades as a US congressman, died late Friday aged 80.

She described Lewis, who in late 2019 was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, as "a titan of the civil rights movement whose goodness, faith and bravery transformed our nation." Two years later Lewis nearly died while leading hundreds of marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on a peace march to Montgomery when state troopers, seeking to intimidate those demonstrating for voting rights for black Americans, attacked protesters.

 

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