Title:
Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement
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Publication Date:
1998
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New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [1998]
©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.
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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.
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English
