Kennedy said of Lewis, "John tells it like it was.Lewis spent most of his life walking against the wind of the times, but he was surely walking with the wind of history. John Lewis still cant remember how he got back to the church. In 1986, he ran and won a congressional seat in Georgia, and remains in office to this day, continuing to enact change. By John Lewis with Michael DOrso Simon & Schuster, 25. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis's vision and perseverance altered history. ![]() ![]() Lewis traces his role in the pivotal Selma marches, Bloody Sunday, and the Freedom Rides. Arrested more than forty times and severely beaten on several occasions, he was one of the youngest yet most courageous leaders.Written with charm, warmth, and honesty, 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. Lewis's leadership in the Nashville Movement-a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville using sit-in techniques based on the teachings of Gandhi-set the tone for major civil rights campaigns of the 1960s. In 1957, a teenaged boy named John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama for Nashville, the epicenter. Lewis's adherence to nonviolence guided that critical time and established him as one of the movement's most charismatic and courageous leaders. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement(Paperback). ![]() In 1957, a teenaged boy named John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama for Nashville, the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. : Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (9780684810652) by Lewis, John Dorso, Michael and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Forty years ago, a teenaged boy named John Lewis stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a "national treasure," this is a gripping first-hand account of the fight for civil rights and the courage it takes to change a nation. Print Walking with the Wind - A Memoir of the MovementĪn award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement.
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