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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 : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2015.
- ©1998
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Details
- Additional Authors
- D'Orso, Michael
- Description
- xvii, 526 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Lewis's role in the Nashville Movement - a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville through nonviolent sit-ins - made him a defining activist of his day and helped set the tone for the civil rights movement. Though he was repeatedly a victim of violence and intimidation, his belief in peaceful action, inspired by his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, became the core of his cause and vision. In this classic bestseller, John Lewis vividly captures America's tumultuous civil rights era. His natural gift as a leader would continue. In 1986, he won a congressional seat in Georgia, and remains in office to this day."--The cover.
- Subjects
- United States
- Civil rights movements
- Legislators
- Civil rights workers
- African American civil rights workers
- Biography
- Biographies
- African American civil rights workers > Biography
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) Biography
- History
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Lewis, John, 1940-2020
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Southern States
- Legislators > United States > Biography
- United States > Congress > House > Biography
- African American legislators > Biography
- 1900-1999
- Civil rights workers > United States > Biography
- Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Part one. Coming up -- "That was some hard times" -- A small world, a safe world -- Pilot light -- Part two. Nashville -- "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 15-922
- ISBN
- 9781476797717
- 1476797714
- OCLC
- 901049348
- 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 : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©1998
- Edition
- Simon & Schuster trade paperback edtion.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- D'Orso, Michael, author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-922