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Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement
1st Harvest ed.
Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
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Harcourt Brace, |
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1999, c1998. |
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xvii, 526 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : |
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9780156007085 |
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1 copy available at Concordia University of Edmonton Library.
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.:Place Hold
Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement
1st Harvest ed.
Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
.:Place Hold
Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement
1st Harvest ed.
Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
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Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
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Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement / John Lewis ; with Michael D'Orso.
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Edition:
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1st Harvest ed.
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Publication info:
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San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1999, c1998.
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Physical description:
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xvii, 526 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
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text txt
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volume nc
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Personal subject:
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Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
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Corporate subject:
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United States. Congress. House--Biography.
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Corporate subject:
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)--Biography.
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Subject term:
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Legislators--United States--Biography.
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African American legislators--Biography.
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Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
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African American civil rights workers--Biography.
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African Americans--Civil rights.
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Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.
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General Note:
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A Harvest book.
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General Note:
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Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998.
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General Note:
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Includes index.
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Contents:
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Coming up. "That was some hard times" ; A small world, a safe world ; Pilot light -- Nashville. "The boy from Troy" ; Soul force ; "Nigras, nigras everywhere!" -- Freedom ride. "This is the students" ; Last supper ; Mr. Greyhound -- Snick. Raise up the rug ; "We march today" ; "Keep your stick down" -- "Uhuru". "Feel angry with me" ; Freedom fighters ; Into Selma -- Going down. Bloody Sunday ; De-election ; "Why?" -- Home. The new South ; Old ghosts ; Onward.
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Summary:
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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 was happening behind the scenes, the infighting, struggles, and triumphs. Lewis takes us from the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he led more than five hundred marchers on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
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Added Entry-Personal:
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D'Orso, Michael.
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ISBN:
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9780156007085 (pbk.)
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ISBN:
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0156007088 (pbk.)
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9916798
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LCCN:
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99028356
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