"Devoted to equality and justice for all Americans, Lewis spent more than 30 years in Congress steadfastly defending and building on key civil rights gains that he had helped achieve in the 1960s," the U.S. Postal Service noted.

 

Also known as the "conscience of the U.S. Congress," Lewis represented Georgia's 5th Congressional District as a Democrat from 1987 until his death in 2020.

 

A force in the 20th-century civil rights movement, Lewis joined the Freedom Riders in demonstrating against segregated buses; spoke at the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. famously delivered his "I Have a Dream" address; and was violently beaten in 1965's "Bloody Sunday" while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.