Three former presidents mourn John Lewis at funeral in Atlanta americamagazine.org

John Lewis was mourned, revered and celebrated as an American hero on Thursday at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, a sacred place for many of those who helped to shape civil rights history.

Three former presidents joined in the eulogies after nearly a week of mourning that took him from his birthplace in Alabama to the nation’s capital of Washington to his final resting place in his home of Atlanta.

Lewis was “a man of pure joy and unbreakable perseverance," former President Barack Obama said during a fiery speech in which he hearkened back to Lewis' legacy and connected it to the ongoing fight against those who are “doing their darndest to discourage people from voting.”…