Former President Barack Obama, addresses the service during the funeral for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

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Images from the life of civil rights icon and Rep. John Lewis, 1940 – 2020

John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement who famously was beaten by police in Selma, Ala., during the struggle for Black voting rights and went on to become a 17-term member of Congress, is mourned after his death at 80.

Former President Obama addresses mourners during the funeral for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Former President George W. Bush speaks during the funeral service for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Former President George W. Bush speaks during the funeral for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Former President Bill Clinton speaks during the funeral service for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Former President Clinton speaks during the funeral for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

A woman becomes emotional during the funeral service for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

A woman stands during the funeral for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

A military honor guard moved the casket of Rep. John Lewis into Ebenezer Baptist Church for his funeral, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Atlanta. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

A military honor guard moves the casket of Rep. John Lewis into Ebenezer Baptist Church for his funeral in Atlanta. (Brynn Anderson / Associated Press)

Mourners stand outside Ebenezer Baptist Church during the funeral for Rep. John Lewis at , Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Atlanta. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Mourners stand outside Ebenezer Baptist Church during the funeral of Rep. John Lewis in Atlanta. (Brynn Anderson / Associated Press)

Samuel Lewis, brother of John Lewis, attends the funeral service for the late congressman at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Samuel Lewis, brother of John Lewis, attends the congressman’s funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Tybre Faw becomes emotional after the reading of John Lewis' favorite poem, "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley during the funeral service for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Tybre Faw was moved by the reading of John Lewis’ favorite poem, “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley, during the funeral service for the late congressman at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Mourners attend the funeral service for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Mourners attend the funeral service for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Rev. James Lawson speaks during the funeral service for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Civil rights leader the Rev. James Lawson speaks during the funeral service for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms sits with her husband, Derek, during the funeral for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms sits with her husband, Derek, during the funeral for the Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

John-Miles Lewis, the son of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., reaches out and touches the casket of his father as Lewis lies in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, Monday, July 27, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus surround the flag-draped casket of civil rights pioneer Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who died July 17, as he lies in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, Monday, July 27, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)
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Members of the U.S. Capitol Police honor guard stand near the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., on Monday, July 27, 2020, in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Matt McClain/Pool via AP)

Members of the U.S. Capitol Police honor guard stand near the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., on Monday in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Matt McClain/Pool Photo)

The flag-draped casket of the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is carried by a joint services military honor guard up the steps of the East front steps of Capitol Hill in Washington Monday. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 27: The hearse with the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., drives on 16th Street, renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza, near the White House, on July 27, 2020, in Washington, DC. Lewis, a civil rights icon and fierce advocate of voting rights for African Americans, will lie in state at the Capitol. Lewis died on July 17 at the age of 80. (Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)

The hearse with the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., drives on 16th Street, renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza, near the White House in Washington, DC.. ( Alex Brandon/Pool Photo)

People pay respects to Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as he lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda, Monday, July 27, 2020, in Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP)

People pay respects to Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as he lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda, Monday in Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool Photo)

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks to family members in the Rotunda of the U.S., Capitol, during a service for Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. Monday in Washington. (Matt McClain/Pool Photo)

John-Miles Lewis touches the casket of his father, the late Rep. John Lewis, D-GA, a key figure in the civil rights movement and a 17-term congressman from Georgia, lies in state in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 27, 2020. (Photo by Matt McClain / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MATT MCCLAIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

John-Miles Lewis touches the casket of his father, the late Rep. John Lewis, D-GA, a key figure in the civil rights movement in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Matt McClain/Pool Photo)

Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-NY, raises his hands as Amazing Grace is played during the ceremony for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-GA, a key figure in the civil rights movement and a 17-term congressman from Georgia, lies in state in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 27, 2020. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / POOL / AFP) (Photo by J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-NY, raises his hands as Amazing Grace is played during the ceremony for the late Rep. John Lewis in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Matt McClain/Pool Photo)

Supreme Court associate justice Sonia Sotomayor pauses at the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as he lies in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington Monday. (Shawn Thew/Pool Photo)

A man places flower petals on the Edmund Pettus Bridge ahead of Rep. John Lewis’ casket. (Brynn Anderson/AP Photo)

Fraternity members sing in front of the casket of the late Rep. John Lewis, during a service celebrating “The Boy from Troy”. (Brynn Anderson/AP)

The body of Congressman John Lewis arrives at the Alabama Capitol. (Julie Bennett/AP)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, file photo, with the Capitol Dome in the background, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)

With the Capitol Dome in the background, U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2017. (Lawrence Jackson / Associated Press)

$State troopers swing billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965. John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (in the foreground) is being beaten by a state trooper. Lewis, a future U.S. Congressman sustained a fractured skull. (AP Photo)$

John Lewis, then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, is beaten by an Alabama state trooper as the police break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., with billy clubs and violence March 7, 1965. Lewis’ skull was fractured. (Associated Press)

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Arnie Sachs/Shutterstock (2920480c) John Lewis, Mathew Ahmann, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, Whitney Young and other civil rights leaders hold hands as they lead a crowd of hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Black Civil Rights Demonstration March in Washington DC, America - 28 Aug 1963 Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, 4th from left, and other civil rights leaders hold hands as they lead a crowd of hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963. from left to right: John Lewis, Mathew Ahmann, unidentified, Dr. King, unidentified, unidentified, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, unidentified, and Whitney Young.

Civil rights leaders including John Lewis, Mathew Ahmann, Martin Luther King Jr., Rabbi Joachim Prinz and Whitney Young hold hands as they lead a crowd of hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963. (Arnie Sachs / Shutterstock)

President Obama holds hands with Rep. John Lewis and Amelia Boynton Robinson, who were both beaten during "Bloody Sunday" in 1965. Obama gave a speech in Selma over the weekend discussing civil rights in America.

Leading a 50th anniversary march in Selma, Ala., in 2015, President Obama holds hands with Rep. John Lewis and Amelia Boynton Robinson, who were both beaten on “Bloody Sunday” in 1965. (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama presents a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Lewis announced Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, that he has stage IV pancreatic cancer, vowing he will stay in office and fight the disease with the tenacity which he fought racial discrimination and other inequalities since the civil rights era. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

President Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rep. John Lewis during a 2011 ceremony in the East Room of the White House. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)

President Obama greets Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) after speaking on civil rights at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. Looking on are First Lady Michelle Obama and Mark Updegrove, the library’s executive director.

President Obama greets Rep. John Lewis after speaking on civil rights at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, in 2014. Looking on are First Lady Michelle Obama and Mark Updegrove, the library’s executive director. (Ashley Landis / European Pressphoto Agency)

Moderate Democrat Michelle Nunn, shown with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), is running aganst several Republicans for a Senate seat from Georgia.

Rep. John Lewis sits next to Michelle Nunn, a moderate Democrat whom Lewis campaigned for in her unsuccessful 2014 bid for a Senate seat in Georgia. (Erik S. Lesser / European Pressphoto Agency)

Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D - Georgia) is co-author of March, a graphic novel trilogy.

Rep. John Lewis poses for a portrait ahead of the 2017 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Lewis spoke at the festival about “March,” a graphic memoir trilogy based on the civil rights movement and Lewis’ life in Alabama. (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)

U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) is arrested outside the Capitol in Washington during a demonstration calling for the House to take up immigration overhaul legislation.

Rep. John Lewis is arrested by U.S. Capitol Police during a 2013 demonstration calling for the House to take up immigration reform legislation. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

In ruling unconstitutional a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door for state and local governments with a history of discriminating against minorities to engage in subtle forms of disenfranchisement. Above: Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), center, and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), right, co-chairs of the Civil Rights Taskforce of the Congressional Black Caucus, join other members of the House to express disappointment in the Supreme Court's decision.

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), center, and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), right, co-chairs of the civil rights task force of the Congressional Black Caucus, join other members of the House to express disappointment in the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision that a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)

John Lewis, left, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., center, in the funeral procession for Jimmie Lee Jackson, slain by an Alabama state trooper in Feb. 1965.

John Lewis, left, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., center right, march in the funeral procession for Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was killed by an Alabama state trooper during a peaceful voting rights march in February 1965. (Associated Press)

U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) speaks to gun control activists outside the Capitol as House Democrats stage a sit-in on the House floor.

Rep. John Lewis speaks to gun control activists outside the Capitol as House Democrats stage a 2016 sit-in on the House floor to demand a vote for gun control measures days after a massacre at an Orlando, Fla., nightclub. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) speaks during the commemoration of the March on Washington.

Rep. John Lewis speaks in 2013 during the 50th anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)

Rep. John Lewis stands in front of a quote of his in the Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library. (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)