When Wilson arrived on campus, her father instructed her to stay in her dorm. Wilson’s brother, a friend of Lewis’ at Fisk University, was a fellow protester whose neck got infected when a Ku Klux Klan member used it to grind out a lit cigarette.
“That was during the years of the hippie time,” Wilson said. Wilson remembers the three-piece suits Lewis used to wear, no matter how stifling the weather, as he carried a briefcase to project a serious image during the civil rights movement. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla.: `He just stood out.' Here's what members of Congress said they will most remember about him. Lewis will lie in state on the steps of the U.S. A horse-drawn carriage carried Lewis' flag-draped casket across the bridge where he suffered a skull fracture when he and other peaceful marchers were beaten with clubs by state troopers on Bloody Sunday in 1965. Lewis, who died July 17 from pancreatic cancer at 80, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for the final time Sunday. Their own spirits were lifted as they marched with Lewis on the anniversaries of Bloody Sunday or watched him spend countless hours talking to young people about the lessons of the past and the work that still needs to be done. They marveled at the gentle spirit of the Democratic congressman from Georgia and wondered why the abuse he suffered as a civil rights leader hadn't made him bitter. WASHINGTON – Lawmakers of both parties said that when moral clarity was needed, they sought guidance again and again from the late Rep. Watch Video: John Lewis remembered be fellow civil rights activists and colleagues
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