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FILE - In this March 4, 2012, file photo, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., center, talks with those gathered on the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge during the 19th annual reenactment of the &quot;Bloody Sunday&quot; Selma to Montgomery civil rights march across the bridge in Selma, Ala. The March 7, 2021, Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will be the first without the towering presence of Lewis, as well as the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. C.T. Vivian and attorney Bruce Boynton, who all died in 2020. (AP Photo/Kevin Glackmeyer, File)

Bloody Sunday memorial honors late civil rights giants

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FILE - In this July 26, 2020 file photo, the casket of Rep. John Lewis moves over the Edmund Pettus Bridge by horse drawn carriage during a memorial service for Lewis, in Selma, Ala. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Bloody Sunday memorial to honor late civil rights giants

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In this Thursday, May 3, 2018 photo, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson, who helped plan a tribute to unknown civil rights pioneer Bruce Carver Boynton, speaks in his courtroom in Montgomery, Ala. Boynton's arrest for sitting in the white section of a segregated bus station restaurant in 1958 led to a Supreme Court decision and inspired the Freedom Rides movement. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

He just wanted a burger: Civil rights pioneer made history

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