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Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement
- Title
- Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement / John Lewis with Michael D'Orso.
- Author
- Lewis, John, 1940-2020
- Publication
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [1998]
- ©1998
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Additional Authors
- D'Orso, Michael
- Description
- 496 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Congressman John Lewis recounts his life, which began in rural poverty in Alabama, and included leadership of the movement to desegregate Nashville, a speech at the 1963 March on Washington, chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and election to the U.S. Congress from Georgia in 1986. "John Lewis tells his story of struggle in the civil rights movement, of comradeship in that community, of its battles and triumphs."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- United States
- Civil rights movements
- Legislators
- Civil rights workers
- United States > Congress > House
- African American civil rights workers
- United States > Congress > House > Biography
- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Legislators > United States > Biography
- Black author
- African American civil rights workers > Biography
- Lewis, John, 1940-2020
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) Biography
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- African American legislators > Biography
- Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century
- Southern States
- Civil rights workers > United States > Biography
- History
- 1900-1999
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Awards (note)
- Lillian Smith Book Award, 1998
- Contents
- Part one. Coming up -- "That was some hard times" -- A small world, a safe world -- Pilot light -- Part two. "The boy from Troy" -- Soul force -- "Nigras, nigras everywhere!" -- Part three. Freedom ride -- "This is the students" -- Last supper -- Mr. Greyhound -- Part four. Snick -- Rise up the rug -- "We march today" -- "Keep your stick down" -- Part five. "Uhuru" -- "Feel angry with me" -- Freedom fighters -- Into Selma -- Part six. Going down -- Bloody Sunday -- De-election -- "Why?" -- Part seven. Home -- The new South -- Old ghosts -- Onward.
- Call Number
- Sc E 98-923
- ISBN
- 0684810654
- 9780684810652
- LCCN
- 98003040
- OCLC
- 38478407
- Author
- Lewis, John, 1940-2020, author.
- Title
- Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement / John Lewis with Michael D'Orso.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [1998]
- Copyright Date
- ©1998
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- Lillian Smith Book Award, 1998
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- D'Orso, Michael, author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 98-923