NEW: Former President Barack Obama will eulogize the late Rep. John Lewis in a funeral service Thursday, wrapping up six days of memorials paying tribute to his life and his legacy as a civil rights icon.
Memorials for the late congressman and civil rights leader were held in Alabama, Georgia and Washington, D.C.in a funeral service Thursday, wrapping up six days of memorials paying tribute to his life and his legacy as a civil rights icon.
In this March 4, 2007, file photo, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talks to Congressman John Lewis during the 42nd Annual Commemoration of the 1965 Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March in Selma, Ala. Funeral ceremonies began last Saturday in Lewis' hometown of Troy, Alabama. On Sunday in Selma, 55 years after he and other demonstrators were beaten on"Bloody Sunday," Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge for a final time. Where he was once met with batons, Lewis' casket saw salutes from state troopers.
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