Updated at 7:25 a.m. Monday
As a civil rights activist at 25, John Lewis was beaten so badly his skull was fractured and the TV images from an Alabama bridge in the 1960s forced a nation’s awakening to racial discrimination.
As a congressman today at 79, Lewis is facing a foe like none before: advanced pancreatic cancer.
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