News alert: Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon who fought for racial justice first with Martin Luther King Jr. and later in the halls of Congress, has died at 80

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News Alert Friday, July 17

Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon who fought for racial justice first with Martin Luther King Jr. and later in the halls of Congress, has died at 80

The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Lewis gained national prominence in the 1960s as one of the original Freedom Riders challenging Jim Crow laws. In Congress, he fought for voters’ rights, and in 2011 President Barack Obama awarded him the Medal of Freedom.

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