Comment on Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon who began pushing for racial justice in the Jim Crow south, has died

USA TODAY, The Tennessean
Fri, 07/17/2020 - 8:41pm

Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon who began pushing for racial justice in the Jim Crow south, has died

The Georgia lawmaker and son of sharecroppers had been suffering from Stage IV pancreatic cancer since December. He was 80.