Embodiment of Lewis' lifelong sacrifice set to honor him at crucial moment in US history

Inside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s church in Atlanta, the nation's first
Black president -- who has acknowledged there only was a Black president
because of what Civil Rights icon and eventual Congressman John Lewis
sacrificed -- will deliver the eulogy. His two White predecessors, both
children of a Civil Rights era that Lewis helped galvanize, will speak before
him.

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