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Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown

On Sunday, his flag-draped casket is to be carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where the one-time “Freedom Rider” was among civil rights demonstrators beaten by state troopers in 1965.

News 12 Staff

Jul 25, 2020, 8:12 PM

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