John Lewis, U.S. congressman and sharecropper’s son, was civil rights hero

[NFA] John Lewis, who died on Friday at age 80, was a hero of the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s who endured beatings by white police and mobs and played an outsized role in American politics for 60 years. This report produced by Jonah Green.
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