The body of the late congressman and civil rights leader will be carried on a horse-drawn caisson.
SELMA, Ala. — Fifty-five years ago, Alabama state troopers beat John Lewis and hundreds of protesters as they crossed Edmund Pettus Bridge. On Sunday, law enforcement was poised to pay tribute to the late civil rights leader as he makes his final journey across the span.The body of the 17-term congressman will be carried on a horse-drawn caisson from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church to the bridge. Lewis will make the crossing alone, greeted by family and state troopers on the other side.
Within months, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which was meant to end the obstacles preventing black people from voting.In subsequent years, Lewis has led an annual march of Republicans and Democrats, current and former presidents across the bridge. Most notably, in 2015 on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, he walked across the span with the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama; former president George W.
At the service at Troy University on Saturday, Lewis’s flag-draped casket was carried by men in masks, and attendees were seated six feet apart, a reminder that the country is still in the midst of the
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