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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.
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. Lewis’s adherence to nonviolence guided that critical time and established him as one of the movement’s most charismatic and courageous leaders. 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. Lewis traces his role in the pivotal Selma marches, Bloody Sunday, and the Freedom Rides. Inspired by his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis’s vision and perseverance altered history. In 1986, he ran and won a congressional seat in Georgia, and remains in office to this day, continuing to enact change.
The late Edward M. 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 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. Lewis’s adherence to nonviolence guided that critical time and established him as one of the movement’s most charismatic and courageous leaders. 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. Lewis traces his role in the pivotal Selma marches, Bloody Sunday, and the Freedom Rides. Inspired by his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis’s vision and perseverance altered history. In 1986, he ran and won a congressional seat in Georgia, and remains in office to this day, continuing to enact change.
The late Edward M. 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.”
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780594788379 |
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Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date: | 02/10/2015 |
Pages: | 544 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.60(d) |
About the Author

John Lewis is the US Representative for Georgia’s fifth district, a position he has held since 1987.
Michael D’Orso is the author of sixteen books, which include Oceana, Plundering Paradise, and The Cost of Courage. His work has been featured or reviewed in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and other publications.
Michael D’Orso is the author of sixteen books, which include Oceana, Plundering Paradise, and The Cost of Courage. His work has been featured or reviewed in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and other publications.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue xv
Part I Coming Up
1 "That Was Some Hard Times" 3
2 A Small World, a Safe World 16
3 Pilot Light 32
Part II Nashville
4 "The Boy From Troy" 57
5 Soul Force 71
6 "Nigras, Nigras Everywhere!" 90
Part III Freedom Ride
7 "This is the Students" 115
8 Last Supper 130
9 Mr. Greyhound 146
Part IV Snick
10 Raise Up The Rug 175
11 "We March Today" 202
12 "Keep Your Stick Down" 232
Part V "Uhuru"
13 "Feel Angry With Me" 261
14 Freedom Fighters 283
15 Into Selma 300
Part VI Going Down
16 Bloody Sunday 335
17 De-Election 363
18 "Why?" 393
Part VII Home
19 The New South 425
20 Old Ghosts 452
21 Onward 480
Index 504
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