The civil rights icon began his fight for equality as a young college student. At age 25, he marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and voting rights demonstrators as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965. Despite the peaceful demonstration, protesters, including Lewis, were severely beaten, in the event now […]
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