Six-day celebration of life for Rep. John Lewis begins Saturday
The late Rep. John Lewis -- a civil rights and voting rights icon known as the "conscience of the U.S. Congress" -- will cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for a final time this weekend.
It's part of a six-day celebration of life paying tribute to his legacy beginning on Saturday in his hometown of Troy, Alabama. Over the next week, Lewis will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, Alabama State Capitol and Georgia State Capitol.
A public service celebrating "The Boy from Troy" will take place Saturday morning at Troy University, where Lewis will lie in repose in the afternoon. Saturday evening, a private ceremony will honor Lewis at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma ahead of another public viewing.
On Sunday morning, a procession will be held across the bridge in Selma where Lewis and other voting rights demonstrators were beaten 55 years ago on "Bloody Sunday." Sunday's march from Brown Chapel to the Edmund Pettus Bridge is titled "#Good Trouble: Courage, Sacrifice & the Long March for Freedom."
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