Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the MovementThe eloquent, award-winning memoir of a civil rights leader & a classic account of one of the most volatile & important periods in American history. Annotation. 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. Written with charm, warmth, and honesty, 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." While there have been exceptional books on the movement, there has never been a front-line account by a man like John Lewis. A true American hero, his story is "destined to become a classic in civil rights literature." |
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User Review - Carolee888 - LibraryThingI loved this book! I only regret that I never got meet him and tell the things we had in common., like raising and loving chickens. I have followed the Civil Rights movement for a very long time and ... Read full review
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User Review - kidzdoc - LibraryThingThis well written and compelling memoir of one of the most important members of the Civil Rights Movement, and the representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district — including most of the City ... Read full review
Contents
A SMALL WORLD A SAFE WORLD | 16 |
PILOT LIGHT | 32 |
THE BOY FROM TROY | 57 |
SOUL FORCE | 71 |
NIGRAS NIGRAS EVERYWHERE | 90 |
THIS IS THE STUDENTS | 115 |
LAST SUPPER | 130 |
MR GREYHOUND | 146 |
FEEL ANGRY WITH ME | 261 |
FREEDOM FIGHTERS | 283 |
INTO SELMA | 300 |
BLOODY SUNDAY | 335 |
DEELECTION | 363 |
WHY? | 393 |
THE NEW SOUTH | 425 |
OLD GHOSTS | 452 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Harvest book |
| Authors | John Lewis, Michael D'Orso |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0156007088, 9780156007085 |
| Length | 526 pages |
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