“His final march, that final crossing, so different than the first, speaks to the legacy that he leaves behind and the lives that he changed,” Rep. Sewell said before the body of Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge one final time.
on the peaceful march for voting rights across the bridge on March 7, 1965, which became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
And though Lewis is possibly best known for his march in Selma, he had already emerged as a leading voice in the fight for equal rights and had been arrested a number of times for the cause by that time. John Lewis, third from left, walks with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as they begin the Selma to Montgomery march from Brown's Chapel Church in Selma on March 21, 1965.Calls have grown to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after Lewis, to honor the man who was arguably a lion in the fight for equality. A, who told NBC News at the time that the idea came to him while watching Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” following days of protesting.
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