Community i mean he was just that i call that for for better education better housing more Voting Rights acts solidified as those years passed by so i think this is an extremely sad day for many people but also a celebration of one of the biggest civil rights icons this country has ever seen if youve just joined us and i was in a well have live coverage here of the body of the u. S. Civil rights pioneer john lewis being taken across the Edmund Pettus bridge in selma alabama one final time is the bridge where he was knocked down to be nonconscious in 1965 for the modeling the black people are given the right to vote and the. Weve weve talked much about john lewis is legacy. His death coming at a Pivotal Moment in the u. S. Given all thats going on right now with the election coming up in november. Do you want to do. Talk to us a little about about what you think his his legacy will be and you know that the timing of his death coming right now when once again were seeing. Racial strife i
Contained measures are exposing Police Brutality in argentina. And the painstaking process of restoring the acropolis in athens as the greek government renews its call the britain to return to its ancient traditions. A long serving politician who stood alongside Martin Luther king jr as a pioneer of Americas Civil Rights Movement has made a symbolic final journey 55 years ago john lewis was knocked down and beaten unconscious on the atman pettus bridge in alabama for demanding black people begin the right to vote his body has now been taken across that same bridge in selma one last time as part of 6 days of ceremonies to remember the 80 year old who died of pancreatic cancer now disease and he gallagher is following all of this from miami in florida for us addie just explain the significance of this moment today. Well john lewis was more than an icon he was a giant in the Civil Rights Movement his casket slowly going across the Edmund Pettus bridge today peacefully but remember back in
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