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From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the show where we explore the stories behind

the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. John Lewis, the civil rights icon and congressman, died last week at the age of 80.

He is known, among many other things, for being one of the leaders of the Selma to Montgomery

voting rights march in 1965. On March 7th of that year, a day now known as Bloody Sunday, Lewis and other marchers were

attacked by armed police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, an event that helped spur Linden Johnson

into signing the Voting Rights Act. Lewis then went on to have a long and storied career in Congress,

representing the 5th District of Georgia,

which included a great deal of Atlanta,

for 17 congressional terms,

and always continuing to fight for voting rights

and embodying the tradition and spirit

of the civil rights movement.

Here he is just a few years ago,

speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives about expanding voting rights movement. Here he is, just a few years ago, speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives

about expanding voting rights protections.

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