well-circulated petition seeking to have the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, renamed after Rep. John Lewis, who marched across it more than 50 years ago in a landmark moment for the civil rights movement.It would be a fitting testament to the man's legacy, which began before he marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr.
on that Bloody Sunday on the bridge, and continued on through his work in government, where he was known as the conscience of the Congress.
Lewis died on July 17, 2020, of stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He was 80.«America was built by John Lewises,» former President Barack Obama said in his eulogy of Lewis. «He as much as anyone in our history brought this country a little bit closer to our highest ideals.
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