Statue of John Lewis unveiled at a city park in Georgia
DECATUR, Ga. (NBC, KYMA/KECY) - A statue of the late civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis was unveiled Saturday at a city park in Georgia where a Confederate monument once stood.
Hundreds of people cheered when the veil was removed, revealing the 12-foot tall bronze statue of Lewis in Decatur's Historic Square.
Lewis was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement and a longtime Democratic congressman from Georgia.
He died in 2020 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.
