Representative John Lewis (D-GA) discussed his autobiography, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, published by Simon and Schuster. Lewis served on Atlanta’s City Council before being elected to congress in 1986 after defeating Julian Bond in the Democratic primary.

Kennedy during his 1968 presidential campaign. He was a leader of the Nashville Movement and campaigned with Robert F. At the age of 23, Representative Lewis was a speaker at the March on Washington in August 1963 with Martin Luther King Jr., organized peaceful protests and sit-ins, and organized the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s drive to organize voter registration during the Mississippi Freedom Summer. Join us for a virtual book discussion on Zoom.T11:00:01-05:00 Representative John Lewis (D-GA) discussed his autobiography, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, published by Simon and Schuster.

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. The march had begun at Browns Chapel, in Selma, Ala., just before 4 p.m. Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Hardcover Jby John Lewis (Author), Michael D'orso (Author) 4,128 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 39.00 17 Used from 4.06 2 New from 39.00 9 Collectible from 50.00 Paperback 11.19 108 Used from 1.64 48 New from 5.33 1 Collectible from 34. Link/Page Citation By John Lewis with Michael DOrso Simon & Schuster, 25 John Lewis still cant remember how he got back to the church. Lewis traces his role in the pivotal Selma marches, Bloody Sunday, and the Freedom Rides. Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. 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. An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement.

Walking with the Wind by John Lewis