Calls Grow To Honor John Lewis In Ways Both Symbolic And Concrete

Posted on July 19, 2020by admin

Mourners pay their respects at a mural of Rep. John Lewis painted on a building in Atlanta. The civil rights icon and congressman died on Friday.

Proposed ideas include renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of the late congressman and passing expanded voting rights legislation in his name.

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