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Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) Played a key role in the civil rights movement and walked with Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 in Selma, Ala. | Rogelio V. Solis / AP Photo
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) Remained hospitalized from Sunday afternoon for undisclosed reasons, but "rests very comfortably" and expects to be released soon.
"He is grateful" Lewis office said in a statement
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WSB-TV, an Atlanta station, reported Saturday that Lewis, 78, has was hospitalized after becoming He was expected at an event in Atlanta on Saturday night but was not there.
A Civil Rights Icon, Lewis is the last survivor of the "Big Six" who led the The way to the 1963 march on Washington Lewis played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement as chairman of the Nonviolent Student Coordinating Committee, one of the original Freedom Riders in 1961 and one of those beaten during from "Bloody Sunday" at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, 1965 He was elected to Congress in 1986.
Associated Press contributed to this report
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