Images from the life of civil rights icon and Rep. John Lewis, 1940 – 2020

Former President George W. Bush speaks during the funeral for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Former President Clinton speaks during the funeral for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

A woman stands during the funeral for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

A military honor guard moves the casket of Rep. John Lewis into Ebenezer Baptist Church for his funeral in Atlanta.   (Brynn Anderson / Associated Press)

Mourners stand outside Ebenezer Baptist Church during the funeral of Rep. John Lewis in Atlanta.   (Brynn Anderson / Associated Press)

Samuel Lewis, brother of John Lewis, attends the congressman’s funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Tybre Faw was moved by the reading of John Lewis’ favorite poem, “Invictusâ€� by William Ernest Henley, during the funeral service for the late congressman at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Mourners attend the funeral service for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Civil rights leader the Rev. James Lawson speaks during the funeral service for Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  (Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms sits with her husband, Derek, during the funeral for the Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus surround the flag-draped casket of civil rights pioneer Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who died July 17, as he lies in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, Monday, July 27, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)
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Members of the U.S. Capitol Police honor guard stand near the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., on Monday in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington.   (Matt McClain/Pool Photo)

The flag-draped casket of the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is carried by a joint services military honor guard up the steps of the East front steps of Capitol Hill in Washington Monday.  (Susan Walsh/Associated Press)

The hearse with the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., drives on 16th Street, renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza, near the White House in Washington, DC..  ( Alex Brandon/Pool Photo)

People pay respects to Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as he lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda, Monday in Washington.   (Shawn Thew/Pool Photo)

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks to family members in the Rotunda of the U.S., Capitol, during a service for Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. Monday in Washington.   (Matt McClain/Pool Photo)

John-Miles Lewis touches the casket of his father, the late Rep. John Lewis, D-GA, a key figure in the civil rights movement in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC.  (Matt McClain/Pool Photo)

Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-NY, raises his hands as Amazing Grace is played during the ceremony for the late Rep. John Lewis in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC.  (Matt McClain/Pool Photo)

Supreme Court associate justice Sonia Sotomayor pauses at the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as he lies in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington Monday.  (Shawn Thew/Pool Photo)

A man places flower petals on the Edmund Pettus Bridge ahead of Rep. John Lewis’ casket.  (Brynn Anderson/AP Photo)

Fraternity members sing in front of the casket of the late Rep. John Lewis, during a service celebrating “The Boy from Troyâ€�.  (Brynn Anderson/AP)

The body of Congressman John Lewis arrives at the Alabama Capitol.  (Julie Bennett/AP)

With the Capitol Dome in the background, U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2017.  (Lawrence Jackson / Associated Press)

John Lewis, then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, is beaten by an Alabama state trooper as the police break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., with billy clubs and violence March 7, 1965. Lewis’ skull was fractured.  (Associated Press)

Leading a 50th anniversary march in Selma, Ala., in 2015, President Obama holds hands with Rep. John Lewis and Amelia Boynton Robinson, who were both beaten on “Bloody Sundayâ€� in 1965.  (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)

President Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rep. John Lewis during a 2011 ceremony in the East Room of the White House.   (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)

Rep. John Lewis poses for a portrait ahead of the 2017 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Lewis spoke at the festival about “March,â€� a graphic memoir trilogy based on the civil rights movement and Lewis’ life in Alabama.  (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)

Rep. John Lewis is arrested by U.S. Capitol Police during a 2013 demonstration calling for the House to take up immigration reform legislation.  (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), center, and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), right, co-chairs of the civil rights task force of the Congressional Black Caucus, join other members of the House to express disappointment in the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision that a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional.   (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)

Rep. John Lewis speaks to gun control activists outside the Capitol as House Democrats stage a 2016 sit-in on the House floor to demand a vote for gun control measures days after a massacre at an Orlando, Fla., nightclub.  (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

Rep. John Lewis speaks in 2013 during the 50th anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington.  (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)

Rep. John Lewis stands in front of a quote of his in the Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library.   (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)