John Lewis, civil rights icon and US congressman, dies aged 80

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US Congressman and Civil Rights Movement icon John Lewis has died at the age of 80.
He was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and a key figure in the fight for Black voting rights.
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro looks back at the life of John Lewis.

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