John Lewis RIP
John Lewis inside the door of a restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee during a sit-in protest in 1960. Photo by .Jack Corn. #OTD #JohnLewisRIP
John Lewis and James Zwerg after being attacked by segregationists in Montgomery. Photo credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. #OTD #FreedomFighters #JohnLewisRIP
John Lewis in Jackson, Mississippi after he used a restroom reserved for white people during the Freedom Ride movement in 1961. Photo credit: Getty Images. #FreedomFighters #GoodTrouble #JohnLewisRIP
John Lewis at the March on Washington in 1963. Photo credit: Getty Images. Watch: . #JohnLewisRIP
US President John F. Kennedy meets with civil rights leaders in 1963 after the March on Washington. John Lewis is in the center, next to Martin Luther King Jr. Photo credit: Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images. #JohnLewisRIP
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John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in New York City n 1964. Photo by Robert Elfstrom. #JohnLewisRIP
Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. Photo by Spider Martin. #JohnLewisRIP
John Lewis beaten by an Alabama state trooper in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. Photo credit: AP. #JohnLewisRIP
John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King at rally on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol on March 25, 1965. Photo by Charles Shaw. #GoodTrouble #JohnLewisRIP
John Lewis at Atlanta City Hall in 1982. Photo by Floyd Edwin Jillson. #JohnLewisRIP
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John Lewis and Coretta Scott King during a ceremony honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial in 2003. Photo by Paul J. Richards. #JohnLewisRIP
John Lewis at his office in Washington, DC in 2009. Photo by Jeff Hutchens. #JohnLewisRIP
John Lewis is led away in handcuffs by a Secret Service officer in Washington, DC in April 2009 as he protested Sudan's Darfur conflict. Photo by Tim Sloan. #GoodTrouble #JohnLewisRIP
President Barack Obama awards John Lewis the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Photo by Brooks Kraft. #JohnLewisRIP
John Lewis at funeral services for his wife Lillian Miles in January 2013. Photo by Kent D. Johnson. #JohnLewisRIP
On March 7, 2015: the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches. Photo by Doug Mills. #JohnLewisRIP
On March 7, 2015: the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches. Photo by Jonathan Ernst. #JohnLewisRIP
On March 7, 2015: the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches. Photo by Jonathan Ernst. #JohnLewisRIP
On June 23, 2016: John Lewis launched a sit-in protest in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting to force a House vote on gun control measures. Photo by Mike Doyle. #GoodTrouble #JohnLewisRIP
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