John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman, has died after a six-month battle with cancer. He was 80.
Awful, awful news: Civil Rights Icon Rep John Lewis has died.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) July 18, 2020
BREAKING: Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis has died at the age of 80 pic.twitter.com/TONrkeBXBc
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 18, 2020
John Lewis most commonly refers to:
John Lewis (civil rights leader) (1940–2020), was a member of U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia.