nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2|||Rep. John Lewis, A Force In The Civil Rights Movement, Dead At 80||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||Lewis began his nearly 60-year career in public service leading sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in the Jim Crow-era South. He went on to serve in Congress for more than three decades.