WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.190 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.190 --> 00:00:04.520 align:middle line:84% - He was known by his colleagues as the conscience of Congress, 00:00:04.520 --> 00:00:06.260 align:middle line:84% and on Friday, representative John 00:00:06.260 --> 00:00:09.050 align:middle line:84% Lewis died at the age of 80 after a battle 00:00:09.050 --> 00:00:11.120 align:middle line:90% with pancreatic cancer. 00:00:11.120 --> 00:00:15.740 align:middle line:84% An Alabama sharecropper's son, Lewis was a hero of the 1960s 00:00:15.740 --> 00:00:18.860 align:middle line:84% Civil Rights Movement, endured beatings by white police 00:00:18.860 --> 00:00:22.520 align:middle line:84% and mobs, and played an outsized role in American politics 00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:24.570 align:middle line:90% for 60 years. 00:00:24.570 --> 00:00:27.950 align:middle line:84% A protege of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., 00:00:27.950 --> 00:00:31.310 align:middle line:84% Lewis led sit-ins to integrate all-white lunch counters, 00:00:31.310 --> 00:00:34.850 align:middle line:84% was one of the original Freedom Riders who integrated buses, 00:00:34.850 --> 00:00:38.120 align:middle line:84% and suffered a skull fracture in a savage beating 00:00:38.120 --> 00:00:41.240 align:middle line:84% while demonstrating for black voting rights on the Edmund 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:43.760 align:middle line:84% Pettus Bridge in Selma during an incident 00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:45.900 align:middle line:90% now called Bloody Sunday. 00:00:45.900 --> 00:00:48.410 align:middle line:84% 50 years later, he walked arm in arm 00:00:48.410 --> 00:00:50.840 align:middle line:84% with the nation's first Black president 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:52.340 align:middle line:90% across that same bridge. 00:00:52.340 --> 00:00:53.870 align:middle line:90% JOHN LEWIS: I'm John Lewis. 00:00:53.870 --> 00:00:55.760 align:middle line:90% I'm running for Congress. 00:00:55.760 --> 00:00:59.360 align:middle line:84% - Lewis was elected in 1986 as a democrat to the US House 00:00:59.360 --> 00:01:02.570 align:middle line:84% of Representatives from Georgia and kept up the fight 00:01:02.570 --> 00:01:04.459 align:middle line:84% for civil rights and human rights 00:01:04.459 --> 00:01:07.430 align:middle line:84% until the end of his life, inspiring others 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:10.678 align:middle line:84% with calls to make, quote, good trouble. 00:01:10.678 --> 00:01:12.510 align:middle line:90% JOHN LEWIS: Speak up! 00:01:12.510 --> 00:01:14.350 align:middle line:90% Speak out! 00:01:14.350 --> 00:01:16.060 align:middle line:90% Get in the way. 00:01:16.060 --> 00:01:17.602 align:middle line:90% Get in good trouble. 00:01:17.602 --> 00:01:18.402 align:middle line:90% - Good trouble! 00:01:18.402 --> 00:01:20.180 align:middle line:84% JOHN LEWIS: Necessary trouble, and help 00:01:20.180 --> 00:01:23.030 align:middle line:90% redeem the soul of America. 00:01:23.030 --> 00:01:27.530 align:middle line:84% - In 2016, Lewis used nonviolent protest tactics he learned from 00:01:27.530 --> 00:01:30.620 align:middle line:84% King to organize a 24-hour sit-in 00:01:30.620 --> 00:01:34.610 align:middle line:84% on the House floor to push for gun control legislation. 00:01:34.610 --> 00:01:36.200 align:middle line:84% And he continued to fight for voting 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.480 align:middle line:90% rights throughout his career. 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.690 align:middle line:84% JOHN LEWIS: The vote is an opportunity to be 00:01:40.690 --> 00:01:42.920 align:middle line:90% on the right side of history. 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:44.690 align:middle line:84% - Tributes from leaders in both parties 00:01:44.690 --> 00:01:47.120 align:middle line:84% poured in late Friday and Saturday. 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:49.670 align:middle line:84% In a statement, former President Barack Obama 00:01:49.670 --> 00:01:52.610 align:middle line:84% said that Lewis, quote, loved his country so much that he 00:01:52.610 --> 00:01:55.400 align:middle line:84% risked his life and his blood so that it might live up 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:58.010 align:middle line:84% to its promise, and through the decades, 00:01:58.010 --> 00:02:00.650 align:middle line:84% he not only gave all of himself to the cause of freedom 00:02:00.650 --> 00:02:03.080 align:middle line:84% and justice, but inspired generations 00:02:03.080 --> 00:02:06.400 align:middle line:84% that followed to try to live up to his example.