Democratic U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia will speak at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, after refusing to join President Donald Trump there last month.
A private group called Friends of Mississippi Civil Rights Inc. announced Tuesday that it will give awards to Lewis, who helped lead the historic 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; and Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who also was active in the civil rights movement.
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