John Lewis, U.S. congressman, civil rights icon, 'American hero,' dead at 80 | CBC News
12:07pm PDT - July 18th, 2020 john lewis - CBC NewsJohn Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, has died. He was 80.