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The people carrying on the legacy of John Lewis

Michael Collins, left, was the chief of staff to U.S. Rep. John Lewis. He's now serving as a special assistant to Vice President Kamala Harris. “I never imagined what the congressman’s passing would mean to me,” Collins said recently. “It came in waves of processing his passing. He was a boss. He was a father figure. He was a mentor. He was a confidant. And I lost all of that at once.” (Curtis Compton/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Atlanta and nation hold events to honor Congressman John Lewis
Hundreds join bike ride in honor of Rep. John Lewis on anniversary of passing
PHOTOS: Events across U.S. pay homage to John Lewis
John Lewis left footprints across metro Atlanta
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)
John Lewis’ final Pettus crossing offers ‘poetic justice'
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.
READ: Barack Obama’s eulogy of Rep. John Lewis
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.
John Lewis: Man of the people
Rodney Crowell, right, performs in the Ryman Auditorium during a celebration of life marking the one-year anniversary of U.S. Rep. John Lewis's death Saturday, July 17, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
John Lewis tributes outside of Atlanta
John Lewis final march across Edmund Pettus Bridge
Watch: John Lewis' final crossing over Edmund Pettus Bridge
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)
Alabama: Hometown and family bid farewell
After two days of memorial services in Alabama, U.S. Rep. John Lewis is now in Washington for a final visit to the U.S. Capitol.
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
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
Memorable quotes, key moments from Atlanta funeral
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Last Words: An essay Lewis wrote shortly before his death
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FILE - In this March 7, 1965, file photo, civil rights demonstrators struggle on the ground as state troopers break up a march in Selma, Ala. The world knows the names of John Lewis and a few more of the voting rights demonstrators who walked across Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 only to be attacked by Alabama state troopers on a day that came to be called “Bloody Sunday.” A new project aims to identify more of the hundreds of people who were involved in the protest. (AP Photo/File)
Project aims to ID more voting rights marchers of ‘Bloody Sunday’
The spot where an obelisk confederate monument once stodd on the courthouse grounds, is shown before a press conference occurs in reference to it in Decatur. DeKalb Superior Court Judge Clarence Seeliger declared the monument that was erected in 1908 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, to be a public nuisance that should be removed. JOHN AMIS FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION AJC FILE PHOTO
Fundraising campaign launched for John Lewis memorial in DeKalb
Congressman John Lewis contributed to two posthumous books published this month. AJC File
Bookshelf: Posthumous John Lewis books ‘his gift to the world’
Rodney Crowell, right, performs in the Ryman Auditorium during a celebration of life marking the one-year anniversary of U.S. Rep. John Lewis's death Saturday, July 17, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
John Lewis tributes outside of Atlanta
People light their candles during the Good Trouble Vigil in Vine City on Saturday evening, July 17, 2021. Saturday was the one-year anniversary of the death of Congressman John Lewis. “Good trouble” was Lewis’ signature phrase, and, since his death, it has become shorthand for his approach that included nonviolent protest, activism and left-leaning politics. (Photo: Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Atlanta and nation hold events to honor Congressman John Lewis on anniversary of his...
Michael Collins, left, was the chief of staff to U.S. Rep. John Lewis. He's now serving as a special assistant to Vice President Kamala Harris. “I never imagined what the congressman’s passing would mean to me,” Collins said recently. “It came in waves of processing his passing. He was a boss. He was a father figure. He was a mentor. He was a confidant. And I lost all of that at once.” (Curtis Compton/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The people carrying on the legacy of John Lewis
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus embraces U.S. Rep. John Lewis in 2017 as they unveil a rendering of a ship to be named after the Georgia congressman. (Courtesy: Office of John Lewis)
Christening of John Lewis naval ship will mark one year after his death
A man takes a photo of the new John Lewis statue at Rodney Cook, Sr. Park in Vine City in Atlanta, GA., on Wednesday, June 7, 2021. (Photo/ Jenn Finch for the Atlanta Journal Constitution)
John Lewis statue rises in Vine City’s new park
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A man takes a photo of the new John Lewis statue at Rodney Cook, Sr. Park in Vine City in Atlanta, GA., on Wednesday, June 7, 2021. (Photo/ Jenn Finch for the Atlanta Journal Constitution)
John Lewis statue rises in Vine City’s new park
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New book marks the places, watershed moments of the U.S. Civil Rights movement
In this March 2013 file photo, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., points to where he and others were beaten 48 years ago when they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge during a civil rights march in Selma, Ala. At rear is Vice President Joe Biden. At left is U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala.; Jesse Jackson is second from left. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
In honor of Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday,’ Biden announces new voting rights initiatives
A group of men hoist U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Atlanta, on their shoulders so he can speak to the crowd of marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge during Selma's re-enactment of Bloody Sunday on Sunday, March 1, 2020, in Selma. Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com
The Jolt: Democrats still look to John Lewis as their moral center
John Lewis statue proposal advances in Georgia House
Artists sought for John Lewis tribute at old Confederate monument site
The spot where a Confederate obelisk once stood on the grounds of the DeKalb County courthouse in Decatur. DeKalb Superior Court Judge Clarence Seeliger declared the monument that was erected in 1908 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, to be a public nuisance that should be removed. JOHN AMIS FOR THE AJC
Task force backs John Lewis tribute at Decatur Confederate monument site
Rep. Calvin Smyre (hand on statue) played a role in getting a statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. placed on the grounds of the State Capitol. The statue was unveiled this summer on the anniversary of King’s famed “I Have a Dream” speech. BOB ANDRES /BANDRES@AJC.COM
Young Georgians forge new fronts, carry MLK’s civic legacy into 2021
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