Rep. John Lewis, civil rights champion and the 'conscience of Congress,' was honored by his colleagues in the nation's capital Monday.
WASHINGTON – As he prepared for the invocation for Lewis’ service, Grainger Browning Jr. wanted to highlight Lewis’ humble beginnings and his life’s work on voting rights.
Browning said he’d bonded with Lewis on a plane ride to Alabama in March for the congressman’s annual pilgrimage to Selma to commemorate “Bloody Sunday.” During one event, Browning delivered a prayer at the historic Brown Chapel A.M.E. where Lewis and other civil rights protesters sought refuge during the 1965 walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Dressed in black and wearing black face masks, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, paid their respects to Lewis at the Capitol Monday evening. drove onto the Capitol grounds following a route that took his motorcade passed many landmarks significant to him.Then the Lincoln Memorial. Lewis had been the last living speaker from theLewis had made his last public appearance in June at the Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House, where he had “passed the torch,” as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described it.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, stood in front of the casket for several moments in the late afternoon, before the casket was scheduled to be brought to the Capitol's east front for public viewing.After the hearse arrived at the Capitol, one member of Lewis’ honor guard fainted in the heat before Lewis' flag-draped casket was lifted from the hearse and carried up the steps.
Those were the words embroidered into the coat that Abraham Lincoln was wearing the night he was assassinated by a Confederate sympathizer. "Even though the world around him gave him every cause for bitterness," McConnell said, Lewis treated everyone"with respect and love." Members of the Congressional Black Caucus came up as a group to surround their colleague. Some wiped tears from their eyes.
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