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The first life-sized sculpture honoring Representative John Lewis has been unveiled in Alabama. The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) showcased the new display at Legacy Plaza in Montgomery, across from the Legacy Museum. The statue joins the sculptures of Rosa Parks and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Equal Justice Initiative will unveil a new statue honoring Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Legacy Plaza on Friday, June 14. The statue will be the first full-sized sculpture of Dr. King in Montgomery.

The Equal Justice Initiative has unveiled a new statue honoring civil rights legend Rosa Parks at Legacy Plaza, across from the Legacy Museum in downtown Montgomery.The sculpture of Mrs. Parks is the first of three statues that will be erected in Legacy Plaza in the coming months.

The life and legacy of an Alabama trailblazer in the Civil Rights movement will be celebrated today. The Southern Poverty Law Center will host a wreath-laying ceremony honoring the late Congressman John Lewis.

“At that time, we’d been singing songs, we shall overcome, and before I’d be a slave…be dead and buried in my grave,” says Bennie Lee Tucker. He’s seventy…

The Selma City Council is declaring March 15th to be "F.D. Reese Day" in the community. Frederick Douglas Reese was 88 when he died in 2018. He had been…

ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis will lie in repose at the Georgia capitol in his hometown of Atlanta in one of the last memorial services for the late…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have praised the late congressman John Lewis as a moral force for the nation in a Capitol Rotunda memorial service…

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis has crossed Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge for the final time as remembrances continue for the civil rights…

TROY, Ala. (AP) — Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis is being remembered in ceremonies in the rural Alabama county where his…