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US congressman and civil rights leader, John Lewis is dead.
Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who then carried a mantle of moral authority into Congress, died on Friday.
This was confirmed in a statement by Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives.
“Today, America mourns the loss of one of the greatest heroes of American history,” said Pelosi.
She described the deceased congressman as “a titan of the civil rights movement whose goodness, faith and bravery transformed our nation.”
Lewis who passed on at age 80 was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in late 2019.
