Along with Martin Luther King Jr., Rep. John R. Lewis was an organizer of the March on Washington in 1963, a seminal moment in the Civil Rights Movement that led to the passage of voting rights for Blacks two years later.
Source: The Daily Jeff – News from Camberidge OH
Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, dies at 80
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