John Lewis lies in state at the Capitol

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Members of the Congressional Black Caucus at the conclusion of a service for the late Rep. John Lewis at the U.S. Capitol on Monday Associated Press/Photo by J. Scott Applewhite

A horse-drawn carriage carried the former congressman’s body across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday in Selma, Ala., where he survived a beating by police as he led a historic civil rights march more than five decades ago. Then on Monday, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., became the first black lawmaker to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. A delegation including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., traveled with Lewis’ body from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to Capitol Hill on Monday for his official state memorial service. Along the way, they made brief stops at the Lincoln Memorial, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Black Lives Matter Plaza, and other Washington landmarks.

How long will he lie in state? On Wednesday, Lewis’ body will return to Atlanta for a ceremony at the Georgia Capitol. A private funeral will close the remembrances on Thursday at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King once served as pastor.

Dig deeper: Read Mickey McLean’s obituary of John Lewis in The Sift.

Seth Johnson Seth is a correspondent for WORLD. He is a World Journalism Institute graduate and a journalism student at Bob Jones University. Seth resides in Indianapolis, Ind.