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Nashville names street after civil rights icon John Lewis

| November 6, 2020 9:09 AM

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials in Nashville, Tennessee, have renamed most of a street after civil rights icon John Lewis, who help desegregate the city's lunch counters before becoming a long-serving congressman in Georgia.

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