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Georgia congressman John Lewis, civil rights hero, dies at 80
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U.S. Representative John Lewis poses for a photo at Black Lives Matter plaza in Washington D.C. Lewis died Friday, July 17, 2020. He was 80. (Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash)
ATLANTA — John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80.