Title: Walking with the wind
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."
Subjects: African American civil rights workers, Afro-Americans, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), United States. Congress. House, Legislators, Afro-American legislators, Civil rights, United States, African American legislators, Civil rights movements, Afro-American civil rights workers, History, African Americans, Biography, Civil rights workers, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Erlebnisbericht, United States. Congress. House of Representatives, Bürgerrechtsbewegung, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, New York Times reviewed, United states, congress, house, biography, Legislators, united states, Civil rights movements, united states, African americans, civil rights, Southern states, history
Places: Southern States, United States
People: John Lewis (1940 Feb. 21-)
Time periods: 20th century