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This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
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- On July 17, 2020, politician and civil rights icon John Lewis passed away after a six month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was eighty years old.
- He had served as the representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death.
- Lewis, the son of sharecroppers, was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, and served as one of the "Big Six" leaders who helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington. He survived a brutal beating during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama when state and local police fractured his skull with clubs.
- Lewis died on the same day as another civil rights leader, Rev. Cordy Tindell "C.T." Vivian, who was 95.
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