Bibliograph

Walking with the wind, a memoir of the movement, John Lewis with Michael D'Orso

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Walking with the wind, a memoir of the movement, John Lewis with Michael D'Orso

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Walking with the wind

Oclc number

41137724

Responsibility statement

John Lewis with Michael D'Orso

Series statement

A Harvest book

Sub title

a memoir of the movement

Summary

The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was present at all the major battlefields of the movement. Arrested more than forty times and severely beaten on several occasions, he was one of the youngest yet most courageous leaders. Walking with the Wind offers rare insight into the movement and the personalities of all the civil rights leaders-what was happening behind the scenes, the infighting, struggles, and triumphs. Lewis takes us from the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he led more than five hundred marchers on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."

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