John Lewis, 50 years after Selma bridge beating
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John Lewis was peacefully marching for voting rights and was beaten in the head and nearly killed by state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama March 7, 1965.
Congressman Lewis tells his story, and the lessons we can learn, in an appearance at the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival, moderated by Gwen Ifill of PBS.
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