DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — DeKalb County Schools, along with the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation, unveiled a new mural on Monday honoring late Georgia congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis.
The artwork will be on display at John R. Lewis Elementary.
The school opened in 2019. It’s the first public school named after Lewis, who served in Congress for 33 years until his death in 2020.
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Lewis participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins and the Freedom Rides. In 1965 he led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettis Bridge, where he and other marchers were attacked by state troopers and police in an incident that became to be known as Bloody Sunday.
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