PHOTOS: Remembering John Lewis' Legacy

Members of a U.S. Capitol Police honor guard stand in front of the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as he lies in state on the East Front Steps of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

John Lewis Remembered

Members of a U.S. Capitol Police honor guard stand near the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as he lies in state on the East Front Steps of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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People view the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as he lies in state on the East Front Steps of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

John Lewis Remembered

A wreath is shown prior to the start of a memorial service for Rep. John Lewis, D- Ga., in the Capitol Rotunda, Monday, July 27, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Rep. John Lewis Lies In State At The US Capitol Building

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 27: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) touches the casket during a memorial service for former Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) in the Capitol Rotunda on July 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Lewis, a civil rights icon and fierce advocate of voting rights for African Americans, will lie in state at the Capitol. Lewis died on July 17 at the age of 80. (Photo by Matt McClain-Pool/Getty Images)

Rep. John Lewis Lies In State At The US Capitol Building

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 27: John-Miles Lewis touches the casket during a memorial service for his father, former Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) in the Capitol Rotunda on July 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Lewis, a civil rights icon and fierce advocate of voting rights for African Americans, will lie in state at the Capitol. Lewis died on July 17 at the age of 80. (Photo by Matt McClain-Pool/Getty Images)

Rep. John Lewis Lies In State At The US Capitol Building

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 27: John-Miles Lewis, the son of civil rights pioneer and longtime U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA), reaches out and touches the casket of his father as Lewis lies in state at the center of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on July 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Lewis, a civil rights icon and fierce advocate of voting rights for African Americans, will lie in state at the Capitol. Lewis died on July 17 at the age of 80. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst - Pool/Getty Images)

Rep. John Lewis Lies In State At The US Capitol Building

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 27: Members of Congress pay their respects during a memorial service for former Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) in the Capitol Rotunda on July 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Lewis, a civil rights icon and fierce advocate of voting rights for African Americans, will lie in state at the Capitol. Lewis died on July 17 at the age of 80. (Photo by Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

Rep. John Lewis Lies In State At The US Capitol Building

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 27: The casket of former Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) is placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for a memorial service on July 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Lewis, a civil rights icon and fierce advocate of voting rights for African Americans, will lie in state at the Capitol. Lewis died on July 17 at the age of 80. (Photo by Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

Rep. John Lewis Lies In State At The US Capitol Building

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 27: Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden touches the flag-draped casket of the late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) as he lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda on July 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Lewis, a civil rights icon and fierce advocate of voting rights for African Americans, will lie in state at the Capitol. Lewis died on July 17 at the age of 80. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite - Pool/Getty Images)

Rep. John Lewis Lies In State At The US Capitol Building

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 27: The casket of former Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) is placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for a memorial service on July 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Lewis, a civil rights icon and fierce advocate of voting rights for African Americans, will lie in state at the Capitol. Lewis died on July 17 at the age of 80. (Photo by Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

Rep. John Lewis Lies In State At The US Capitol Building

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 27: A military honor guard carries the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) into the U.S. Capitol where he will lie in state July 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Called 'the conscience of the U.S. Congress,' Lewis was a civil rights pioneer, contemporary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and helped to organize and address the historic March on Washington in August 1963. Lewis served Georgia's fifth congressional district from 1987 until his death on July 17. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

John Lewis-Remembered

A portrait of Congressman John Lewis sets beside the stage before a memorial vigil Sunday, July 26, 2020, in Montgomery, Ala.(AP Photo/Julie Bennett)

President Kennedy Meets with Civil Rights Leaders

381091 31: President John F. Kennedy meets with civil rights leaders at the White House August 28, 1963. (Photo by National Archive/Newsmakers)

March in Selma

Dr Martin Luther King Jr (1926 - 1990), arm in arm with Reverend Ralph Abernathy, leads marchers as they begin the Selma to Montgomery civil rights march from Brown's Chapel Church in Selma, Alabama, US, 21st March 1965; (L-R)an unidentified priest and man, John Lewis, an unidentified nun, Ralph Abernathy (1926 - 1990), Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968), Ralph Bunche (1904 - 1971) (partially visible), Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 - 1972), Fred Shuttlesworth (1926 - 1990). (Photo by William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Selma to Montgomery March

March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery; among those pictured are, front row, politician and civil rights activist John Lewis (1940 – 2020), Reverend Ralph Abernathy (1926 - 1990), Ruth Harris Bunche (1906 - 1988), Nobel Prize-winning political scientist and diplomat Ralph Bunche (1904 - 1971), activist Hosea Williams (1926 – 2000). (Photo by William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images)

Nashville Public Library Awards Civil Right Icon Congressman John Lewis Literary Award

NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 19: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been converted to black and white) Congressman/Civil Rights Icon John Lewis views for the first time images and his arrest record for leading a nonviolent sit-in at Nashville's segreated lunch counters, March 5, 1963. He was eariler honored with the Nashville Public Library Literary Award on November 19, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

Members Of Congress, Activists Protest Darfur Crisis At Sudanese Embassy

WASHINGTON - APRIL 27: Civil rights pioneer Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) sits in the back of a police van after being arrested by the U.S. Secret Service for refusing to move from in front of the Sudanese Embassy while demonstrating against the genocide in Darfur April 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. Eight members of congress and activists were arrested for civil disobedience while bringing attention to the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan. International aid groups helping Darfurians were kicked out of Sudan and accused of spying when the International Criminal Court brought charges of genocide against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in March. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

President Obama Honors Medal Of Freedom Recipients

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 15: U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) (R) is presented with the 2010 Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama during an East Room event at the White House February 15, 2011 in Washington, DC. Obama presented the medal, the highest honor awarded to civilians, to twelve pioneers in sports, labor, politics and arts. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

House Votes To Hold Holder In Contempt Over Fast And Furious Operation

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28: U.S. House Democratic members, including (L-R) Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL), Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN), House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. George Meeks (D-NY), Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), participate in a walkout in protest of a vote on whether Attorney General Eric Holder was in contempt of Congress June 28, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The House was scheduled for the contempt vote after Holder was accused for not submitting some of the documents in the Fast and Furious program, a federal law enforcement operation that allowed guns to circulate across the border between the U.S. and Mexico, to a House panel investigating it. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Activists From Across The Country Hold March For Immigration Reform

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 8: Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) is arrested by U.S. Capitol Police after blocking First Street NW in front of the U.S. Capitol with fellow supporters of immigration reform, on October 8, 2013 in Washington, DC. Last week, House Democrats introduced their own immigration reform bill. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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US President Barack Obama (R) hugs US Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, one of the original marchers at Selma, during an event marking the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015. The Obamas traveled to Selma to commemorate Bloody Sunday, when civil rights marchers attempting to walk to the Alabama capital of Montgomery to end voting discrimination against African Americans, clashed with police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

House Democrats Holds Press Event Honoring Las Vegas Shooting Victims And Call For Increased Gun Safety Legislation

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 04: Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) thanks anti-gun violence supporters following a rally with fellow Democrats on the East Front steps of the U.S. House of Representatives October 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. The Democratic members of Congress held the rally to honor the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas and to demand passage of the bipartisan King-Thompson legislation to strengthen background checks and establishing a bipartisan Select Committee on Gun Violence. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

91st Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 24: U.S. Representative John Lewis attends the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on February 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Rep. Elijah Cummings Lies In State At U.S. Capitol

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 24: Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus wait to enter as a group to attend the memorial services of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) at the U.S. Capitol October 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Rep. Cummings passed away on October 17, 2019 at the age of 68 from "complications concerning longstanding health challenges." (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais-Pool/Getty Images)

Rep. Elijah Cummings Lies In State At U.S. Capitol

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 24: Civil Rights icon Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) prepares to pay his respects to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) who lies in state within Statuary Hall during a memorial ceremony on Capitol Hill on October 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Melina Mara-Pool/Getty Images)

Presidential Democratic Candidates March Across Edmund Pettus Bridge Marking 55th Anniversary Of Selma's Bloody Sunday

SELMA, ALABAMA - MARCH 01: Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) speaks to the crowd at the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing reenactment marking 55th anniversary of Selma's Bloody Sunday on March 1, 2020 in Selma, Alabama. Mr. Lewis marched for civil rights across the bridge 55 years ago. Some of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates attended the Selma bridge crossing jubilee ahead of Super Tuesday. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)