Kennedy said of Lewis, John tells it like it wasLewis spent most of his life walking against the wind of the times, but he was surely walking with the wind of history. : Forty years ago, a teenaged boy stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America, where he has remained to this day, committed still to the nonviolent ideals of his mentor Martin Luther King and the movement they both served. Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Hardcover Jby John Lewis (Author), Michael D'orso (Author) 4,128 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 39.00 17 Used from 4.06 2 New from 39.00 9 Collectible from 50.00 Paperback 11.19 108 Used from 1.64 48 New from 5.33 1 Collectible from 34. In 1986, he ran and won a congressional seat in Georgia, and remains in office to this day, continuing to enact change.
, Lewiss vision and perseverance altered history. Lewis traces his role in the pivotal Selma marches, Bloody Sunday, and the Freedom Rides. Lewiss leadership in the Nashville Movementa student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville using sit-in techniques based on the teachings of Gandhiset the tone for major civil rights campaigns of the 1960s. Lewiss adherence to nonviolence guided that critical time and established him as one of the movements most charismatic and courageous leaders.
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. An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement. 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. An 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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