BREAKING: Rep. John Lewis, civil rights icon, has died at age 80 after a monthslong battle with cancer, a Democratic official says. https://nbcnews.to/3eMhNW0 

The longtime Georgia congressman, an advocate of non-violent protest who had his skull fractured by Alabama state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, was the last surviving speaker from 1963's March on Washington.

Born near Troy, Alabama on Feb. 21, 1940 and raised on a cotton farm, Lewis attended segregated public schools — and questioned why after hearing Martin Luther King Jr. on the radio.

Speaker Pelosi on John Lewis: "Today, America mourns the loss of one of the greatest heroes of American history ... May his memory be an inspiration that moves us all to, in the face of injustice, make ‘good trouble, necessary trouble.’"