Civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday — in the rural Alabama county where his story began — as a humble man who sprang from his family's farm with a vision that "good trouble" could change the world. (Linda Schaeffer/The Associated Press)"The John Lewis I want you to know is the John Lewis who would gravitate to the least of these," his brother Henry Grant Lewis said, a biblical reference to Jesus's instructions to aid those in need. Lewis, foreground, is hit by a state trooper during a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., in March 1965. Lewis, far right, locks arms with other civil rights leaders as they march to the courthouse in Montgomery, Ala., in March 1965. His parents and siblings watched the news footage of the Selma beatings, worried that he would become the next civil rights martyr.

Source: CBC News July 25, 2020 20:03 UTC