The funeral for Rep. John Lewis will be held in Atlanta at Ebenezer Baptist Church today. Three former presidents — Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton — are expected to speak. Watch the service live beginning at 11 a.m. ET.
A mourner pauses by the casket of Rep. John Lewis lying in repose at the Georgia state Capitol on Wednesday in Atlanta. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died on July 17.A mourner pauses by the casket of Rep. John Lewis lying in repose at the Georgia state Capitol on Wednesday in Atlanta.
Lewis helped organize the 1963 March on Washington and was the last surviving speaker from the event.penned by the congressman shortly before his death. "Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble," Lewis wrote."Voting and participating in the democratic process are key. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it."
In this June 7 photo provided by the Executive Office of District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, the mayor and John Lewis look over a section of 16th Street that has been renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington. It would be Lewis' final public appearance.In this June 7 photo provided by the Executive Office of District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, the mayor and John Lewis look over a section of 16th Street that has been renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington.
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