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Rights activists, political leaders mourn Rep. John Lewis

by Associated Press
| July 19, 2020 12:03 AM

Rights activists, politicians from both parties and many other people touched by the legacy of John Lewis mourned the congressman and pillar of the civil rights movement Saturday, lauding the strength, courage and kindness of a man whose lifelong struggle against racial discrimination took him from a bridge in Selma to the nation's Capitol.

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