📸 On Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, people gathered and placed items beneath a large mural painted in memory of the late civil rights icon and congressman Rep. John Lewis.
John Lewis served in Congress for more than three decades.died at the age of 80 Friday.
He called Lewis a friend who"Even when we differed, John was always unfailingly kind and my family and I will never forget the privilege of crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge at his side on the 45th anniversary of Bloody Sunday." Or perhaps it was that he was truly a one-of-a-kind, a moral compass who always knew where to point us and which direction to march.
To John’s son, John Miles, and to his family, friends, staff, and constituents, we send you our love and prayers. Thank you for sharing him with the nation and the world. "John Lewis was a titan of the civil rights movement whose goodness, faith and bravery transformed our nation – from the determination with which he met discrimination at lunch counters and on Freedom Rides, to the courage he showed as a young man facing down violence and death on Edmund Pettus Bridge, to the moral leadership he brought to the Congress for more than 30 years," Pelosi said in a statement Friday night.
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