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The late US congressmen, John Lewis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John Robert Lewis,<\/a>\u00a0the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman, has died after a six-month battle with cancer.<\/a>\u00a0He was 80.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“It is with inconsolable grief and enduring sadness that we announce the passing of U.S. Rep. John Lewis,” his family said in a statement. “He was honored and respected as the conscience of the US Congress and an icon of American history, but we knew him as a loving father and brother. He was a stalwart champion in the on-going struggle to demand respect for the dignity and worth of every human being. He dedicated his entire life to non-violent activism and was an outspoken advocate in the struggle for equal justice in America. He will be deeply missed.”<\/div>\n
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According to CNN, Lewis died on the same day as civil rights leader the Rev. Cordy Tindell “C.T.” Vivian, who was 95.\u00a0<\/a>The dual deaths of the civil rights icons come as the nation is still grappling with racial upheaval in the wake of the death of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests that have swept the nation.<\/div>\n
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Read the full CNN story<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Robert Lewis,\u00a0the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman, has died after a…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":252764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,235,6,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-homepage-carousel","category-international-news","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nUS civil rights legend, congressman John Lewis, dead at 80 - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/us-civil-rights-legend-congressman-john-lewis-dead-at-80\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US civil rights legend, congressman John Lewis, dead at 80 - 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