Today, he's the only member of Congress who can be proud of having been carried off to jail more than 40 times. The nation, tuned to the nightly news, watched in horror as state troopers clubbed him viciously, fracturing his skull as he led a march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. He spoke at the historic 1963 March on Washington and became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. One of the young people who brought the teachings of Ghandi and King to the lunch counters of Nashville in 1960, Lewis suffered taunts and threats, beatings and arrests. John Lewis is an authentic American hero, a modest man from the most humble of beginnings who left a rural Alabama cotton farm 40 years ago and strode into the forefront of the civil rights movement. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. 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. 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. 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. The 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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