Civil Rights hero and congressman , John lewis dead at 80.

John Henry M. Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating through police at some purpose of a landmark 1965 march in town, Alabama, to emerge as a towering parent of the civil rights motion and an established US representative, has died after a six-month struggle with cancer. He became 80. Lewis, a Democrat who served because the US consultant for Georgia’s fifth congressional district for extra than 3 decades, became broadly visible as a ethical moral sense of Congress due to his decades-lengthy embodiment of nonviolent combat for civil rights. His aroused oratory became sponsored through a protracted report of motion that enclosed, through his count, extra than forty arrests at a similar time as demonstrating in opposition to racial and social injustice. a fan and colleague of theologiser King Jnr., he participated in lunch counter sit-ins, joined the liberty Riders in difficult segregated buses and -- on the age of twenty three -- became a keynote speaker on the anciental 1963 locomote Washington.