Lewis also led children on a march through the San Diego Convention Center. In 2015, Lewis attended Comic-Con International in San Diego in his own super hero uniform: The same trench coat he wore in 1965 during the march in Selma, Alabama, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The civil rights icon might not seem like a typical comic book hero, but "March: Book 3" became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was awarded the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now." At the time, Lewis said that he has been "in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life.
In December 2019, Lewis announced he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
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