Ellise Shafer editorAfter news broke that John Lewis had died on Friday, celebrities and politicians alike took to social media to remember the civil rights pioneer and Georgia representative.Lewis died at age 80 of pancreatic cancer after announcing his diagnosis in December.
He helped lead the non-violent civil rights protest movement of the 1960s alongside Martin Luther King Jr., assisted in organizing the 1963 march on Washington and the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma that motivated the passing of the Voting Rights Act.Former president Barack Obama and presidential candidate Joe Biden both paid tribute to Lewis with lengthy posts shared to Twitter.Not many of us get to live to see our own legacy play out in such a meaningful,.
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