The body of civil rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis arrived in Atlanta where he will lie in the Georgia State Capitol on Wednesday.
July 29 (UPI) — The body of civil rights icon and U. S. Rep. John Lewis arrived in Atlanta where he will lie in the Georgia State Capitol on Wednesday. Hundreds of people attended a public viewing and a brief ceremony attended by state leaders and the Lewis family. The congressman died at the age of 80 on July 17. Lewis’ body arrived at Dobbins Air Reserve Base at 12:30 p.m. after departing Washington, D. C., were he lay in state for two days at the Capitol rotunda. During its trip to the Georgia State Capitol, the procession stopped at the Rainbow Crosswalk at 10th and Piedmont — honoring his support of same-sex marriage — and at a five-story John Lewis Mural on Auburn Avenue.
