Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement
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San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1999.
ISBN
0156007088, 9780156007085
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Eisenhower Public Library District - Stacks | 323.4 LEW | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
African American legislators -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Autobiographies.
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Lewis, John, -- 1940-2020.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- Biography.
United States. -- Congress. -- House -- Biography.
African American legislators -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Autobiographies.
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Lewis, John, -- 1940-2020.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- Biography.
United States. -- Congress. -- House -- Biography.
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Published
San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1999.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xvii, 526 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
0156007088, 9780156007085
Notes
General Note
Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998.
General Note
Includes index.
Description
The eloquent, award-winning memoir of a civil rights leader & a classic account of one of the most volatile & important periods in American history. Annotation. 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. 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. 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. A true American hero, his story is "destined to become a classic in civil rights literature."
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lewis, J., & D'Orso, M. (1999). Walking with the wind: a memoir of the movement (First Harvest edition.). Harcourt Brace.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lewis, John, 1940-2020 and Michael. D'Orso. 1999. Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. Harcourt Brace.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lewis, John, 1940-2020 and Michael. D'Orso. Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Harcourt Brace, 1999.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lewis, John, and Michael D'Orso. Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement First Harvest edition., Harcourt Brace, 1999.
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