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TThe death of John Lewis, the Alabama-born civil rights activist Freedom Rider and student leader-turned-Georgia congressman, represents a generational transition in America’s long struggle for black freedom, dignity and citizenship. A disciple of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, who experienced brutal and repeated acts of violence by racist white police …

John Lewis, the civil rights hero and Democratic congressman from the United States, died at the age of 80. Lewis, who was born on February 21, 1940 in Alabama, became a leading leader of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Founding member of the Nonviolent Student Coordination Committee, became …