Atlanta, GA
Bill to name Atlanta post office for John Lewis close to law
ATLANTA (AP) — A invoice to call Atlanta’s foremost publish workplace after the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis is near changing into legislation.
The measure handed the U.S. Senate unanimously on Wednesday.
President Joe Biden should signal it into legislation.
The ability is south of downtown Atlanta close to the airport.
Lewis was finest identified for main protesters within the 1965 Bloody Sunday march throughout the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Lewis was knocked to the bottom and crushed by state troopers.
Lewis died in 2020 at age 80 after asserting he had been recognized with pancreatic most cancers.
He represented Georgia’s fifth Congressional District, centered in Atlanta, from 1987 till his dying.
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