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Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
In Troy Alabama Pike County mourns civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis. At a memorial service titled The Boy from Troy his early life on the family farm is recalled. The weeklong observances include a solemn swing through Montgomery and Washington before Georgia funeral rites.
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