02.01.2021 | JOHN LEWIS (1940 - 2020)

John Lewis, Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 80

Images of his beating at Selma shocked the nation and led to swift passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He was later called the conscience of the Congress.

By Katharine Q. Seelye | Published July 17, 2020Updated Aug. 4, 2020

Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who then carried a mantle of moral authority into Congress, died on Friday. He was 80.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/john-lewis-dead.html