Title Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement / John Lewis with Michael D'Orso.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [1998]
	©1998.

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Description	496 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note	Includes index.
Contents	Part one. Coming up -- "That was some hard times" -- A small world, a safe world -- Pilot light -- Part two. "The boy from Troy" -- Soul force -- "Nigras, nigras everywhere!" -- Part three. Freedom ride -- "This is the students" -- Last supper -- Mr. Greyhound -- Part four. Snick -- Rise up the rug -- "We march today" -- "Keep your stick down" -- Part five. "Uhuru" -- "Feel angry with me" -- Freedom fighters -- Into Selma -- Part six. Going down -- Bloody Sunday -- De-election -- "Why?" -- Part seven. Home -- The new South -- Old ghosts -- Onward.
Summary	Congressman John Lewis recounts his life, which began in rural poverty in Alabama, and included leadership of the movement to desegregate Nashville, a speech at the 1963 March on Washington, chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and election to the U.S. Congress from Georgia in 1986. "John Lewis tells his story of struggle in the civil rights movement, of comradeship in that community, of its battles and triumphs."--Jacket.
Awards	Lillian Smith Book Award, 1998
Subject	Lewis, John, 1940-2020
	Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
	African American legislators -- Biography.
	United States. Congress. House -- Biography.
	Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
	African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
	Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- Biography.
	African Americans -- Civil rights.
	Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	Lewis, John Robert, 1940 Feb. 21-
	United States. Congress. House.
	Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
	Lewis, John, 1940 February 21- (OCoLC)fst01830728
	Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) (OCoLC)fst00511190
	United States. Congress. House. (OCoLC)fst00536930
	African American civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00799093
	African American legislators. (OCoLC)fst00799220
	African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
	Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
	Civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00862721
	Legislators. (OCoLC)fst00995828
	Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Bürgerrechtsbewegung (DE-588)4146878-8
	Erlebnisbericht (DE-588)4133254-4
	United States (DE-588)4078704-7
	United States.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	D'Orso, Michael, author.
Other Form:	Online version: Lewis, John, 1940 February 21- Walking with the wind. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, ©1998 (OCoLC)606936907
	Online version: Lewis, John, 1940 February 21- Walking with the wind. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, ©1998 (OCoLC)608575856
ISBN	0684810654 (hc)
	9780684810652 (hc)
	9781476797717 (pbk.)
	1476797714 (pbk.)

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