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Watch: Selma honors congressman, civil rights icon John Lewis

Selma, Alabama, will honor the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis at the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church with a service Saturday evening.

A service celebrating 鈥淭he Boy from Troy鈥 was held earlier today on the campus of Troy University. On Sunday, his casket will be carried across Selma鈥檚 Edmund Pettus Bridge, where he and other civil rights activists were beaten by state troopers in 1965, before lying in repose at the Alabama Capitol.

Watch a livestream below around 7 p.m. once events begin.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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