The flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) is carried by a joint services military honor guard to the hearse, on July 27, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. – Sandra Rose

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The flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) is carried by a joint services military honor guard to the hearse, on July 27, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.

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People walk next to a mural of former Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis as they gather at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC, July 27, 2020. – Tributes to civil rights leader congressman John Lewis, will be held at the US Capitol, where Lewis will lie in state through Tuesday evening, a rarely granted honor. Lewis grew up in the Alabama city of Troy. His parents were sharecroppers, and he once worked in a cotton field. While attending segregated schools, Lewis was inspired by the peaceful protests of rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)