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Honoring the good trouble man

Demonstrators take an extra walk on Grand Coulee's Midway Avenue Thursday on the fifth anniversary of the death of John Lewis, a civil rights era activist and non-violence advocate who was beaten by mobs 45 times in the 1960s as the country convulsed to end racial segregation. Two decades later, Lewis was elected to Congress. "My philosophy is very simple," Rep. Lewis once told an audience. "When...

 
 

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