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    • February 14, 2015 Selma, AL: Congressman John Lewis on the Edward Pettus Bridge February 14, 2015. On March 7, 1965 Hosea Williams and John Lewis led 600 civil rights activists across the Edward Pettus Bridge in a march for voting rights. Lewis had no idea the level of violence that awaited the group on the other side of the bridge. In what would become known around the country as as Bloody Sunday, state troopers and sheriff deputies used tear gas and clubs to break up the march. Leaving Lewis with a skull fracture and sending more than 50 others to the local hospital for treatment. BRANT SANDERLIN / BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM
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    07/26/2020 - Selma, Alabama - The body of Rep. John Lewis is taken by horse drawn caisson across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during a farewell ceremonial crossing in Selma, Sunday, July 26, 2020. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    Former President Barack Obama, addresses the service during the funeral for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020.
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    In 2018, two-year-old Pheonix Lewis and her mother Saidah Lewis, bumped into John Lewis at Atlantic Station. Naturally, they took a photo with the congressman. To mark his passing, Pheonix Lewis visited his mural and left flowers - and the photo.
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    John Lewis: Man of the people
    July 25, 2020 Troy - The casket of Congressman Lewis is brought out by joint honor guards after a service celebrating "The Boy from Troy" at Trojan Arena in Troy University on Saturday, July 25, 2020. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    The flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is carried by a joint services military honor guard to the hearse, Monday, July 27, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
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    Washington honors ‘the conscience of the Congress’ in Capitol ceremony
    7/29/20 - 7/29/20 - Atlanta, GA - A ceremony is held in the Capitol Rotunda where Rep. John Lewis will lie in state. On the fifth day of the “Celebration of Life” for Rep. John Lewis, Lewis’s body and and family members returned to Georgia for ceremonies at the State Capitol where he will also lie in state until his funeral on Thursday. Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.shin@ajc.com
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    Atlanta: Georgia celebrates John Lewis at the State Capitol
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    Tributes from Keisha Lance Bottoms, Brian Kemp, Calvin Smyre
    Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr pays tribute to Rep. John Lewis
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    William Harbour participated in the Nashville student movement for civil rights and the 1961 Freedom Rides to open up public transportation for Blacks. He was beaten and imprisoned for that. Bita Honarvar bhonarvar@ajc.com
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    7/30/20 - Atlanta, GA - Victoria Evans, 9, writing a message in the poster of John Lewis outside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    DeKalb, Decatur leaders launch task force to honor John Lewis
    In this image from video, Georgia State Sen. Nikema Williams speaks during the state roll call vote on second night of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. (Democratic National Convention via AP)
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    08/10/2020 - College Park, Georgia - Gov. Brian Kemp (left) speaks with U.S. Surgeon General Vice Admiral Jerome M. Adams before the start of a press conference at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing clinic located in a Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport paid parking facility in College Park, Monday, August 10, 2020. Both GOv. Kemp and Vice Admiral Adams encouraged Georgians to where a mask to combat the spread of COVID-19. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    Departing president and Morehouse alum Robert Franklin presented the 128th commencement address.
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    Mark Spatt (left) and DeMark Liggins started an initiative called My54.org, which encourages people to walk, ride or run the distance between Selma and Montgomery for a cause that’s important to them. (Contributed photo)
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    A mile (or 54) in their shoes: Walk to honor John Lewis, C.T. Vivian
    06/26/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - Gov. Brian Kemp greets Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, right, before speaking to members of the Georgia Senate in the Senate Chambers on Sine Die, day 40, of the legislative session in Atlanta, Friday, June 26, 2020. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    06/26/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - Gov. Brian Kemp greets Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, right, before speaking to members of the Georgia Senate in the Senate Chambers on Sine Die, day 40, of the legislative session in Atlanta, Friday, June 26, 2020. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    The King generation: Civil rights leaders who were advisors and associates of MLK Jr. roughly 1955-1968
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    Vice President Joe Biden, second from left, talks with Sen. Sam Nunn, left, developer Tom Cousins and executive director of the East Lake Foundation, Carol Naughton at the East Lake Early Leaning Academy Tuesday March 4, 2014.
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    Lewis’ death renews attention on Voting Rights Act, signed 55 years ago
    Mail-in paper ballots wait to be scanned by Fulton County employees at the Georgia World Congress Center during the Georgia primary on June 9. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    The Great American Outdoor Act signed Aug. 4, 2020, will help fund repairs at national parks including Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield National Park. CONTRIBUTED(Courtesy of National Park Service)
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    <p> FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2019 file photo, Gov. Brian Kemp addresses the 2019 Season Joint Budget hearings in Atlanta. In letters dated Wednesday, March 6, 2019, a U.S. House committee is seeking a trove of information from Georgia’s governor and secretary of state as it investigates reports of voter registration problems and other issues reported during the state’s 2018 elections. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) </p> <p> FILE - In this pool image from video, Stacey Abrams delivers the Democratic party's response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 from Atlanta. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp served as the state’s chief election officer while he ran for governor in 2018. Abrams has alleged he mismanaged the election which she narrowly lost, an allegation which Kemp denies. (Pool video image via AP) </p> <p> FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2019 file photo, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger answers questions after the Georgia House passed a bill to buy a new election system that includes a paper ballot. But opponents to the bill, including many Democrats, say it would still leave Georgia's elections vulnerable to hacking and tampering. In letters dated Wednesday, March 6, 2019, a U.S. House committee is seeking a trove of information from Georgia’s governor and secretary of state as it investigates reports of voter registration problems and other issues reported during the state’s 2018 elections. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) </p> <p> FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 file photo, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D- Md., the chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, presides over the last hour of testimony by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. In letters dated Wednesday, March 6, 2019 and signed by Reps. Cummings and Jamie Raskin, both from Maryland, a U.S. House committee is seeking a trove of information from Georgia’s governor and secretary of state as it investigates reports of voter registration problems and other issues reported during the state’s 2018 elections (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) </p>
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    Former President Barack Obama, addresses the service during the funeral for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020.
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    7/30/20 - Atlanta, GA - Former President Barack Obama, addresses the service. On the sixth day of the “Celebration of Life” for Rep. John Lewis, his funeral is held at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, with burial to follow. Alyssa Pointer / alyssa.pointer@ajc.com
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    Former President Barack Obama, addresses the service during the funeral for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020.
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    A statue of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, the Confederate vice president throughout the Civil War, has been on display in the Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol since 1927, A number of top politicians in Georgia have joined in a bipartisan effort to replace it with a likeness of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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    BeBe (pictured) and Marvin Winans, who were also longtime confidantes of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, spoke and sang for those mourning at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Thursday.
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    President Barack Obama said of John Lewis: “He loved this country so much that he risked his life and its blood so that it might live up to its promise." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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    July 29, 2020 Atlanta - Phi Beta Sigma fraternity members view the flag-draped casket of Congressman John Lewis during Omega Chapter Ceremony at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Behind them is a portrait of Alexander Stephens, a Georgia congressman and governor who was also the vice president of the Confederacy. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    July 29, 2020 Atlanta - Thousands of people wait in line outside to the Georgia State Capitol Wednesday night to view the body of Congressman John Lewis on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    7/29/20 - Atlanta, GA - The casket containing the body of Rep. John Lewis is carried into the Georgia State Capitol Rotunda. On the fifth day of the “Celebration of Life” for Rep. John Lewis, Lewis’s body and and family members returned to Georgia for ceremonies at the State Capitol where he will also lie in state until his funeral on Thursday. Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.shin@ajc.com
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