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Photo: Stephen Crowley/New York Times Caption May 21, 2009-Rep. Lewis tells the story to visiting school children from St. Clare Elementary School in St. Clare, PA of his participation in the march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama with Rev. Martin Luther King on March 7, 1965 in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” One of Lewis’s staff holds a picture of Lewis being beaten of police.