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Chancellor Gene Block and Rep. John Lewis shook hands after Lewis was awarded the UCLA Medal. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)

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As a young man living in Nashville, Tennessee, Rep. John Lewis sat at whites-only lunch counters in protest of segregation and was told that he would get arrested if he continued.

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Rep. John Lewis awarded UCLA Medal at Winston C. Doby Lecture

By Dina Stumpf

April 10, 2017 11:15 p.m.