Atlanta and the nation are still mourning two American civil rights giants who passed away on the same day.
Georgia Congressman John Lewis passed away on Friday, after announcing he was battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer back in December.
Lewis was the last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Among his more than 40 arrests in the name of social justice, Lewis was revered for leading hundreds of protesters in the 1965 Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama.
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