‘He was our North Star’; Black leaders, pols remember civil rights icon John Lewis at Harlem vigil

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Lewis, who died Friday at age 80, paid in blood and broken bone in the fight for the 1965 Voting Rights Act, when his skull was cracked open by white police officers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. that March.

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