![]() ![]() ![]() The march had begun at Brown's Chapel, in Selma, Ala., just before 4 p.m. In 1957, a teenaged boy named John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama for. 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. Link/Page Citation By John Lewis with Michael D'Orso Simon & Schuster, 25 John Lewis still can't remember how he got back to the church. An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement. A true American hero, his story is "destined to become a classic in civil rights literature. Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. 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." While there have been exceptional books on the movement, there has never been a front-line account by a man like John Lewis. Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Hardcover Jby John Lewis (Author), Michael D'orso (Author) 4,102 ratings Hardcover 41.90 31 Used from 1.67 4 New from 35.89 5 Collectible from 150.00 Paperback 11.29 124 Used from 1.82 50 New from 8. 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, struggles, and triumphs. Arrested more than forty times and severely beaten on several occasions, he was one of the youngest yet most courageous leaders. Shop our inventory for Walking with the Wind : A Memoir of the Movement by Michael DOrso, John Lewis with fast shipping on every used book we have in. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was present at all the major battlefields of the movement. ![]() 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. ![]()
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