Former President Barack Obama will eulogize the late Rep. John Lewis in a funeral service today, wrapping up six days of memorials paying tribute to his life and his legacy as a civil rights icon.
and Bill Clinton will also attend the private funeral at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once led. Lewis will be buried in South View Cemetery in Atlanta on Thursday afternoon.
In this March 4, 2007, file photo, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talks to Congressman John Lewis during the 42nd Annual Commemoration of the 1965 Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March in Selma, Ala.Lewis died on July 17 at 80 after a months-long battle with pancreatic cancer. A horse-drawn carriage carries the body of Rep. John Lewis through downtown Selma, Ala., before crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, July 26, 2020.
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