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John Lewis, civil rights icon and longtime congressman, dies

John Lewis, civil rights icon and longtime congressman, dies

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Rep. John Lewis, an iconic pioneer of the civil rights movement who famously shed his blood at the foot of a Selma, Ala., bridge in the fight for Black voting rights and went on to become a 17-term Democratic member of Congress, died Friday. He was 80.

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