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John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80

Gadsden Times | Alabama

Jul 18, 2020

ATLANTA - 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…

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