Statue of the late US Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, is unveiled in his native Alabama
Hindustan TimesMONTGOMERY, Ala. — A statue of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, has been unveiled in Alabama's capital city. Statue of the late US Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, is unveiled in his native Alabama The likeness, called Steadfast Stride Toward Justice, sits in the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Plaza in Montgomery. “I just think the entire state of Alabama owes John Lewis so much because he pulled us all out of the darkness of Jim Crow and racial segregation,” said the initiative's executive director, Bryan Stevenson. Lewis was a native of Pike County, Alabama, and is known for leading hundreds across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965, a day now known as “Bloody Sunday.” He was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 1981 and to Congress in 1986, where he served 17 terms in the U.S. House from Georgia’s 5th District.
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