John Lewis was laid to rest in Atlanta, Georgia, the city the late civil rights leader represented in Congress for over 30 years, in a Thursday funeral service attended by three former presidents.ASSOCIATED PRESSAmong those paying their respects to Lewis at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. and his father served as pastors, were former presidents Barack Obama, George Bush and Bill Clinton, House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
After words from Bush, describing Lewis’s childhood in Troy, Alabama, including an anecdote of a young Lewis preaching to his family’s chickens, Clinton traced Lewis’s storied history as a civil rights leader, praising him for “a mission that was bigger than personal ambition.” “He hoped for and imagined and lived and worked and moved for his beloved community, and he took a savage beating on more than one day,” said Clinton, pointing to Lewis’s essay publishedas evidence of his unfaltering commitment to equality: “It’s so fitting on the day of his service, he gives us our marching orders: keep moving.”
Pelosi spoke to his 17 terms as a congressman, noting Lewis’s “mischievous” demeanor and the “twinkle in his eye” while encouraging “good trouble” at the Capitol, which—highlighting Lewis’s in the Democratic policing reform bill following George Floyd’s death—Pelosi said lasted until his July 17 death at 80 years-old. Members of an Honor Guard place the casket of the late Rep. John Lewis.ASSOCIATED PRESSJohn Lewis's sister at the funeral service.Former president Bill Clinton remembers his friend: “I just loved him. I always will."A funeral-goer becomes emotional after activist James Lawson reads Lewis' favorite poem,"Invictus.
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