The coffin of civil rights leader and Georgia Congressman John Lewis was carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama Sunday morning.
Incredible image: John Lewis crossing the bridge in Selma, where he nearly died marching for voting rights 55 years ago, one last time pic.twitter.com/YUm7mvp8Ww
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) July 26, 2020
The two-horse caisson carrying Lewis’s flag-draped coffin crossed the bridge, which was covered in flower petals by mourners leading the procession.
On March 7, 1965, the then 25-year-old Lewis led around 600 civil rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where they were greeted by Alabama State Troopers who beat the marchers with clubs and batons.
Lewis died July 17th after a long fight with pancreatic cancer. His body will be transported to Washington, DC, where it will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda Monday before a public viewing to be held outside the Capitol on Monday evening and Tuesday to accommodate pubic health considerations.