Walking with the wind
About this book
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
- african american legislators
- african americans
- african americans, biography
- african americans, civil rights
- afro-american civil rights workers
- afro-american legislators
- afro-americans
- biography
- bürgerrechtsbewegung
- civil rights
- civil rights movements
- civil rights movements, united states
- civil rights workers
- erlebnisbericht
- history
- legislators
- legislators, united states
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2020-08-09
- southern states, history
- student nonviolent coordinating committee
- student nonviolent coordinating committee (u.s.)
- umschulungswerkstätten für siedler und auswanderer
- united states
- united states. congress. house
- united states, congress, house, biography
- united states. congress. house of representatives