Join us for a virtual book discussion on Zoom. Kennedy said of Lewis, “John tells it like it was…Lewis spent most of his life walking against the wind of the times, but he was surely walking with the wind of history.” In 1986, he ran and won a congressional seat in Georgia, and remains in office to this day, continuing to enact change. The book contains the late congressman’s final reflections after a lifetime on the front lines of the battle for America’s soul, focusing on the things that mattered most to him and sharing his. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis’s vision and perseverance altered history. Lewis traces his role in the pivotal Selma marches, Bloody Sunday, and the Freedom Rides. Lewis’s leadership in the Nashville Movement-a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville using sit-in techniques based on the teachings of Gandhi-set the tone for major civil rights campaigns of the 1960s. Walking with the Wind Michael DOrso, John Lewis Your purchase helps support C-SPAN Click here to learn how More information about Purchase a Download See all on Book TV U.S. Lewis’s adherence to nonviolence guided that critical time and established him as one of the movement’s 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. That is America to menot just the movement for civil rights but the endless struggle to respond with decency, dignity and a sense of brotherhood to all the challenges that face us as a nation, as a whole.

He takes you by the hand and walks you through the story of his life starting as the dirt-poor son of an Alabama sharecropper, his terrifying experiences in the civil rights movement, and finally his work in politics. Children holding hands, walking with the wind. John Lewis was a wise story teller, an excellent writer, a gentle soul, and a good person. 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. Walking with the Wind Important Quotes 1. 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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