U.S. lawmakers held back tears as an audio recording of the late Georgia Democratic Congressman John Lewis was played at the Capitol Hill ceremony that honored the civil rights pioneer
Before arriving on Capitol Hill, the hearse carrying Lewis passed by Washington landmarks important to the American civil rights movement - the Lincoln Memorial and the nearby Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial.
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed Lewis as “a titan of the civil rights movement and then the conscience of the United States Congress.” But it was Lewis’ own words he delivered in a 2014 Emory University commencement address in Atlanta which were broadcast, heightening the drama and emotion of the ceremony.
A Democratic member of Congress from Atlanta since 1987, Lewis endured numerous beatings and arrests in his lifelong fight against segregation and for racial justice. He died on July 17 of pancreatic cancer at age 80.
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