Walking with the wind
Subtitle: a memoir of the movement
By: John Lewis with Michael D'Orso.
Contributors: D'Orso, Michael.
Edition: 1st Harvest ed.
Series: A Harvest book
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 1999
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
Subjects: Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21-; United States. Congress. House -- Biography.; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- Biography.; 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.
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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. 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."
Notes: Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Includes index.