Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement

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Title:

Author:

Lewis, John, 1940-2020 author.

Added Author:

D'Orso, Michael, author.

Publication Date:

1998

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [1998]

Physical Description:

496 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN:

9781476797717

Abstract:

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.

General 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.

Personal Subject:

Lewis, John, 1940-2020

Corporate Subject:

United States. Congress. House -- Biography.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- Biography.

Subject Term:

Legislators -- United States -- Biography.

African American legislators -- Biography.

Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.

African American civil rights workers -- Biography.

African Americans -- Civil rights.

Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.