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- He was known by his colleagues
as the conscience of Congress,

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and on Friday,
representative John

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Lewis died at the age
of 80 after a battle

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with pancreatic cancer.

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An Alabama sharecropper's son,
Lewis was a hero of the 1960s

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Civil Rights Movement, endured
beatings by white police

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and mobs, and played an outsized
role in American politics

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for 60 years.

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A protege of civil rights
icon Martin Luther King Jr.,

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Lewis led sit-ins to integrate
all-white lunch counters,

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was one of the original Freedom
Riders who integrated buses,

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and suffered a skull
fracture in a savage beating

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while demonstrating for black
voting rights on the Edmund

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Pettus Bridge in Selma
during an incident

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now called Bloody Sunday.

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50 years later, he
walked arm in arm

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with the nation's
first Black president

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across that same bridge.

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JOHN LEWIS: I'm John Lewis.

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I'm running for Congress.

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- Lewis was elected in 1986
as a democrat to the US House

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of Representatives from
Georgia and kept up the fight

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for civil rights
and human rights

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until the end of his
life, inspiring others

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with calls to make,
quote, good trouble.

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JOHN LEWIS: Speak up!

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Speak out!

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Get in the way.

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Get in good trouble.

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- Good trouble!

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JOHN LEWIS: Necessary
trouble, and help

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redeem the soul of America.

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- In 2016, Lewis used nonviolent
protest tactics he learned from

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King to organize
a 24-hour sit-in

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on the House floor to push
for gun control legislation.

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And he continued
to fight for voting

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rights throughout his career.

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JOHN LEWIS: The vote
is an opportunity to be

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on the right side of history.

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- Tributes from
leaders in both parties

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poured in late
Friday and Saturday.

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In a statement, former
President Barack Obama

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said that Lewis, quote, loved
his country so much that he

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risked his life and his blood
so that it might live up

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to its promise, and
through the decades,

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he not only gave all of
himself to the cause of freedom

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and justice, but
inspired generations

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that followed to try to
live up to his example.