Iconic civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis marched again Tuesday -- this time to a polling place, along with hundreds of college students.

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Lewis, D-Georgia, marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965.

On Tuesday he marched across City Island Bridge in Daytona Beach with about 500 Bethune-Cookman University students like 20-year-old Diamond Grier.

“I think it’s more meaningful when more of us come together. It makes a statement,” said Grier as she marched.

"There’s not anything more powerful, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say, than the marching feet of a determined people. I know something about marching,” said Lewis.

Lewis was a key member of the Civil Rights Movement, taking part in several historic events in the fight to end segregation in the south.

In 1964, Lewis helped organized voter registration drives and programs during the Mississippi Freedom Summer, even though Mississippi's laws prevented most African-Americans from voting.

In 1965, he helped lead over 600 peaceful protesters across the Pettus Bridge in a march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery. Alabama state troopers attacked the protesters in what came to be called Bloody Sunday.

The act of peaceful protest helped push passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Lewis' 2-mile march through the streets of Daytona Beach Tuesday was much more peaceful.

“It’s a long walk, but it’s faster when there’s more people,” said Grier.

Once Lewis and actress Aja Naomi King led the group across City Island Bridge, Lewis reminded the group why they marched.

“There’s no tomorrow, we've got to do it now! Go out and vote like we’ve never voted before. Can we do it?" said Lewis to the group of students.

After the speech, Grier and fellow students lined up to cast their ballot. But the importance of being led to this point by an historic figure was not lost on the Social Science major.

“That's a once in a lifetime thing. That's a great experience,” said Grier.

Murphy joins Lewis at Bethune-Cookman University

Congressman and Senate candidate Patrick Murphy attended Tuesday’s Get Out the Vote march at Bethune Cookman University with Lewis.

Murphy, a Democrat, is running against incumbent Republican Marco Rubio.

Murphy said recent election cycles have been getting uglier with too much finger pointing -- and then criticized his opponent for launching negative ads against him.

“Unfortunately, Senator Rubio and his right-wing friends have lobbied many false attacks against me," Murphy said. "That’s what politics has become and I think the voters see through that, they’re smart.”

Murphy said he would rather discuss critical issues like climate change, education and raising the minimum wage, than concentrate on negative attacks.

Murphy also told the crowd that our fact-checking partners at Politifact had debunked all of the attacks against him. Politifact, however, debunked that claim.