The body of civil rights leader and Georgia Congressmember John Lewis has made one last trip across a bridge in Selma, Alabama, that became a flashpoint in the struggle for racial equality in the Jim Crow south. On Sunday, a funeral caisson drawn by two black horses crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with family members placing red roses on the spot where Lewis was almost beaten to death by police in 1965 while marching for voting rights. This is Fred Lewis, speaking at a weekend memorial service for his brother, John Lewis.

Fred Lewis: “I remember the day when John left home. Mother told him not to get in trouble, not to get in the way, and be particular. Well, we all know that John got in trouble, got in the way. But it was a good trouble. John was different from the rest of the family, and he would have thoughts that all of the troubles he got himself into would change the world.”

Lewis’s body will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., today ahead of a funeral in Georgia.

Meanwhile, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn is seeking to rename a major voting rights bill after John Lewis. The legislation, which has already been approved by the House, would restore parts of the Voting Rights Act gutted by a Supreme Court ruling in 2013. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to schedule a debate on the bill.