John Lewis, congressman and civil rights leader, dead at 80

John Lewis, the Georgia Democratic congressman and civil rights leader who was beaten on Bloody Sunday in Alabama in 1965, died at 80 on Friday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’s death Friday evening, calling the congressman, “one of the greatest heroes of American history.” Lewis had been diagnosed him with stage 4 pancreatic cancer late last year.

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