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    WATCH LIVE: John Lewis, Towering Civil Rights Icon, Memorialized At Atlanta Funeral

    The longtime congressman and civil rights legend is being memorialized at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are scheduled to speak.
    by Brakkton Booker Jul 30, 2020 2 minutes

    The funeral for Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon who was widely revered by his peers as "the conscious of the Congress," is being held in Atlanta on Thursday at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. served as co-pastor.

    Days of ceremonies have honored the longtime congressman in Georgia, his home state Alabama and Washington,

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