Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

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Congressman John Lewis takes readers inside the civil rights movement in"Walking with the Wind"and shares rare insight into the personalities at its heart. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Congressman John Lewis was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late 50s and 60s. Arrested more than forty times he was one of its youngest and most courageous leaders. Writing with charm warmth and honesty Lewis moves from the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins as he reflects on the era to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama where he led more than five hundred marchers on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." Though there have been exceptional books on the movement Lewiss profound personal story is "destined to become a classic in civil rights literature" ("Los Angeles Times").