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Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown of Troy, Ala.
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Mourners walk past the casket during the service for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Troy University on Saturday in Troy, Ala. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died July 17. - photo by Associated Press
TROY, Ala. – Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday – in the rural Alabama county where his story began – as a humble man who sprang from his family’s farm with a vision that “good trouble” could change the world.
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