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Nation’s Capital Pays Respects to Civil-Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis


WASHINGTON—The nation’s capital began paying its respects to the late Rep. John Lewis, the civil-rights leader whose nonviolent tactics helped usher in a landmark voting-rights law aimed at bringing an end to the Jim Crow era of political suppression of Black Americans. Democratic and Republican members of the House and Senate gathered to...


Source: Wall Street Journal July 27, 2020 12:31 UTC



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