Congressman John Lewis, a central and powerful figure in the Civil Rights movement, is dead after a 7-month battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
, a central and powerful figure in the Civil Rights movement, is dead after a 7-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
Rep. Lewis, who represented Georgia's 5th Congressional District for 17 terms, died Friday. He had been diagnosed as stage 4 in December 2019. Speaker of the Housesaid,"Today, America mourns the loss of one of the greatest heroes of American history."Lewis had been in Congress since 1987, but had already had an inspiring impact on American history long before that -- having marched, shoulder-to-shoulder at times, with Dr.In 1961, Mr.
His second-to-last tweet, back on July 7, commemorated his release from prison after he'd been arrested during a Freedom Ride in Jackson, Mississippi. 59 years ago today I was released from Parchman Farm Penitentiary after being arrested in Jackson, MS for using a so-called "white" restroom during the Freedom Rides of 1961.
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