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John Lewis, US civil rights hero and Democratic congressman, dies at 80

John Lewis, US civil rights hero and Democratic congressman, dies at 80

Lewis helped Martin Luther King organise the March on Washington in 1963 and once suffered a broken skull at the hands of state troopers

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John Lewis, the civil rights hero and Democratic congressman, has died at the age of 80.

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