Photos: John Lewis 1940-2020

John R. Lewis, National Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Committee, poses at the National Urban League headquarters in New York City on Aug. 23, 1963. (AP Photo)

In this March 7, 1965 file photo, state troopers use clubs against participants of a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala. At foreground right, John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, is beaten by a state trooper. The day, which became known as “Bloody Sunday,” is widely credited for galvanizing the nation’s leaders and ultimately yielded passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (AP Photo/File)

Atlanta City Councilman John Lewis holds the March 1965 issue of Life Magazine in his office in Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 7, 1986. The cover photo shows Lewis leading the first Selma, Ala., civil rights march with Hosea Williams. Lewis, an Alabama sharecropper’s son, suffered brutal beatings and humiliating sentences in the fiver years preceding the Voting Rights Act. (AP Photo/Ric Feld)

From left center, John Lewis (holding bottle), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, march for civil rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 19, 1965. Others unidentified. (AP Photo)

Martin Luther King Jr., (with hat) flanked by his wife Coretta (right) and John Lewis (far right), leads a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 1965. (AP Photo)

Civil rights leader John Lewis speaks during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., June 23, 1964. He called on President Johnson to protect summer volunteers in Mississippi and that civil rights workers face harrassment arrests and outright violence in Mississippi. (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier)

John Lewis talks on the telephone form his Atlanta hotel room Tuesday night, Sept. 2, 1986 prior to claiming victory by defeating Julian Bond in a runoff election for the fifth Congressional District seat in Georgia. The two were civil rights movement allies. (AP Photo/Linda Shaeffer)

State Sen. Julian Bond greets Atlanta City Councilman John Lewis, right, during an election rally in downtown Atlanta, Monday, August 11, 1986 as former state Rep. Bobby Hill, center, looks on. Bond and Lewis are running for the U.S. 5th Congressional District seat vacated by Wyche Fowler, and Hill is running for Lt. Governor. (AP Photo/Ric Feld)

In this Sept. 3, 1986, file photo, John Lewis, front left, and his wife, Lillian, holding hands, lead a march of supporters from his campaign headquarters to an Atlanta hotel for a victory party after he defeated Julian Bond in a runoff election for Georgia’s 5th Congressional District seat in Atlanta. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Linda Schaeffer, File)

In this May 16, 2006, file photo, Congressional Black Caucus members, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., left, and Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, center, are arrested after a news conference regarding Darfur, at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, talks during a panel discussion about his experiences as a Freedom Rider at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007. Lewis and other Freedom Riders visited Montgomery with a group from Vanderbilt University. (AP Photo/Jamie Martin)

In this March 4, 2007, file photo, from left, Brown Chapel AME Church Pastor James Jackson, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, and Rev. Clete Kiley, hold hands and sing at the end of a church service in Selma, Ala., on the commemoration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

In this Oct. 10, 2007, file photo, with the Capitol Dome in the background, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)

In this Feb. 15, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama presents a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Vice President Joe Biden, center, leads a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 3, 2013. They were commemorating the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when police officers beat marchers when they crossed the bridge on a march from Selma to Montgomery. From left: Selma Mayor George Evans, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., Rev. Jesse Jackson, Biden, Rev. Al Sharpton and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

In this June 25, 2013 file photo, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., appears on Capitol Hill in Washington. CNN Films is developing a documentary on civil rights icon and Georgia congressman John Robert Lewis. The network announced Wednesday, May 8, that “Gideon’s Army” director Dawn Porter is helming the project. She began shooting the 79-year-old Lewis last year ahead of the midterm elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., left, is presented with the honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Harvard University’s Marc Goodheart, right, during commencement exercises, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, May 24, 2012. Lewis was honored for his work as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement among other accomplishments. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

In this March 7, 2015, file photo, singing “We Shall Overcome,” President Barack Obama, third from left, walks holding hands with Amelia Boynton, who was beaten during “Bloody Sunday,” as they and the first family and others including Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga, left of Obama, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a landmark event of the civil rights movement. Some residents in the landmark civil rights city of Selma, Ala., are among the critics of a bid to rename the historic bridge where voting rights marchers were beaten in 1965. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

U.S. Rep. John Lewis stands in front of John Lewis Freedom Parkway moments after its new name was unveiled in Atlanta, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018. Atlanta is honoring Lewis by renaming a street after the civil rights icon. (AP Photos/Brinley Hineman)

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus wait to enter as a group to attend the memorial services for Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (House Television via AP)

In this June 7, 2020 photo provided by the Executive Office of District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, Mayor Bowser and John Lewis look over a section of 16th Street that’s been renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington. The White House is in the background. Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80. (Khalid Naji-Allah/Executive Office of the Mayor via AP)

In this May 10, 2007, file photo, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in his office on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

In this March 5, 1999, file photo, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., speaks with reporters in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Khue Bui, File)

In this Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, of Georgia, speaks to delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

In this Nov. 18, 2016, file photo, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., poses for a photograph under a quote of his that is displayed in the Civil Rights Room in the Nashville Public Library in Nashville, Tenn. Lewis announced Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, that he has stage IV pancreatic cancer, vowing he will stay in office and fight the disease with the tenacity which he fought racial discrimination and other inequalities since the civil rights era. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, listen as civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., speaks at an event before the passage of the Voting Rights Advancement Act to eliminate potential state and local voter suppression laws, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat of Georgia, feels for his driver’s license as he qualifies to run for an 18th term in Congress at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta on Monday, March 2, 2020. Lewis is seeking another term despite announcing in December that he has severe pancreatic cancer, saying Monday that he feels good and was inspired by his Sunday trip to Selma, Alabama, where he and other re-enacted a civil rights march where Lewis was beaten and gassed in 1965. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

In this March 3, 2013, file photo, Vice President Joe Biden, left, embraces U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as they prepare to lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. Civil rights icon Lewis is backing Biden for president, giving the prospective Democratic nominee perhaps his biggest symbolic endorsement among the many veteran black lawmakers who back his candidacy. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

In this July 16, 2019, file photo, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., speaks during a television interview at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is seen onscreen in a scene from the documentary film “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” on the opening night of the Tribeca Drive-In, July 2, 2020, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. Complimentary access was offered to essential workers for the first night of the limited-engagement drive-in film series. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

In this Dec. 6, 2019, file photo, civil rights leader U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is extolled at an event with fellow Democrats before passing the Voting Rights Advancement Act to eliminate potential state and local voter suppression laws, at the Capitol in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)