Selma bids farewell to John Lewis
Alabama lawmakers Senator Doug Jones and Representative Terri Sewell both paid tribute to Lewis - one of the original "Freedom Riders" who played a vital role in the civil rights movement.
On Sunday (26 July) Lewis was due to cross, for the last time, the Edmund Pettus Bridge - where he and other protesters were savagely beaten by police in 1965 during a Selma-Montgomery rights march.
He will then lie in state at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.