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John Lewis: US Civil Rights Icon’s Body Crosses Selma Bridge A Final Time

The body of the late US civil rights icon John Lewis has been carried over Selma’s historic Edmund Pettus Bridge for a final time.

John Lewis crosses Selma bridge … cbc.ca

On 7 March 1965, known as “Bloody Sunday”, Lewis and other peaceful protesters were attacked by Alabama police officers as they marched over the bridge.

John Lewis: Mourners pay tributes to US … bbc.co.uk

They had planned to walk to state capital Montgomery to demand equal voting rights.

Lewis, who died aged 80 on 17 July, will be laid to rest in a private ceremony in Atlanta on Thursday.

BBC