Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Lauded As Warrior At Georgia Capitol

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July 29th, 2020

A military honor guard moves with the casket of Rep. John Lewis at the state capital, Wednesday in Atlanta. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died on July 17.

John Bazemore, Pool / Associated Press

Updated Wednesday at 5:15 p.m.

John Lewis was lauded as a warrior and hero during a ceremony Wednesday at the Georgia Capitol, where the civil rights icon who represented much of Atlanta in Congress will lie in repose in one of the last memorials before he is buried.

Referencing the poem by Langston Hughes, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Lewis called on “America to be America again.”

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