Mourners in the US pay tribute to rights champion before his body is laid to rest.
John Lewis is being remembered in a six-day memorial service that follows his journey through life.
The 17-term congressman from Georgia, who was hailed as the "conscience of Congress', died of pancreatic cancer on July 17 at the age of 80.
A lifetime civil rights leader in the United States who inspired the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, he was the last of the "Big Six" rights figures led by Martin Luther King Jr.
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