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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. Walking with the Wind offers rare insight into the movement and the personalities of all the civil rights leaders-what…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2015Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the MovementSimon & Schuster · 544 pages · 9781476797717
- Other · English · 2001Tandem Library · 526 pages · 9780613225809
- Other · English · 1999Harcourt Brace · 526 pages · 9780156007085
- Other · English · 1998Simon & Schuster · 496 pages · 9780684810652
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