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Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement
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- ISBN: 9781476797717
- ISBN: 1476797714
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xvii, 526 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Edition: Simon & Schuster trade paperback edtion.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2015.
- Copyright: ©1998
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part one. Coming up -- "That was some hard times" -- A small world, a safe world -- Pilot light -- Part two. Nashville -- "The boy from Troy" -- Soul force -- "Nigras, nigras everywhere!" -- Part three. Freedom ride -- "This is the students" -- Last supper -- Mr. Greyhound -- Part four. Snick -- Rise up the rug -- "We march today" -- "Keep your stick down" -- Part five. "Uhuru" -- "Feel angry with me" -- Freedom fighters -- Into Selma -- Part six. Going down -- Bloody Sunday -- De-election -- "Why?" -- Part seven. Home -- The new South -- Old ghosts -- Onward. |
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| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | E 840.8 L43 A3 2015 (Text) | 26040003395403 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Monthly Selections - #2 April 1998
/*Starred Review*/ African American churches would deserve boundless gratitude even if gospel music were their only gift to the nation. But in this vivid memoir from Representative Lewis (D-GA), the impact of these churches is also evident on two levels: in the intimate involvement of churches and clergy in every phase of the civil rights movement throughout the '60s and in the unforced but powerful eloquence of Lewis' narrative (polished, no doubt, by journalist D'Orso). Of course, when Lewis first left rural Pike County, Alabama, where his parents raised 10 children on the proceeds of sharecropping and "working out" on others' land, he headed to tiny American Baptist Theological Seminary; it was there that he joined "the children" (David Halberstam's phrase and the title of his recent book, see The Children ), whose nonviolent civil rights campaigns--from Nashville lunch counters to freedom rides and Freedom Summer--challenged the U.S. to live up to its ideals. Lewis headed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee until 1966, when black-power advocates decided his vision of a multiracial "Beloved Community" no longer represented their goal. So Lewis spent 20 years in organizing, foundation work, and politics, winning his Atlanta congressional seat in 1986 (and every two years since). A thoughtful, illuminating "insider" history of the movement and its aftermath. ((Reviewed April 15, 1998)) Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1998 May
The memoirs of Lewis, an African American congressman from Georgia, emphasize his participation in the stirring days of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, when the author served as national chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and held leadership positions in other Civil Rights organizations. The most valuable portions of his memoirs examine his involvement in the dramatic sit-ins in Nashville in 1960. Many of the local college students who organized these sit-ins became, like Lewis, important leaders in the Civil Rights Movement throughout the remainder of the decade. Lewis and other youthful veterans of the Nashville protests were frequent and very visible participants in demonstrations that made them targets of physical violence (e.g., the Freedom Rides of 1961). Yet Lewis, despite all he's seen, remains a supporter of nonviolence as an effective and moral approach to change. Complementing David Halberstam's The Children (LJ 2/15/98), this book is recommended for the Civil Rights collections of all public and academic libraries.AThomas H. Ferrell, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette Copyright 1998 Cahners Business Information. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1998 February
From a sharecropper's farm through the Civil Rights Movement to the U.S. Congress. Copyright 1998 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1998 April #3
Lewis, an Alabama sharecropper's son, went to Nashville to attend a Baptist college where, at the end of the 1950s, his life and the new civil rights movement became inexorably entwined. First came the lunch counter sit-ins; then the Freedom Rides; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the voter registration drives; the 1963 march on Washington; the Birmingham church bombings; the murders during the Freedom Summer; the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Bloody Sunday in Selma in 1964; and the march on Montgomery. Lewis was an active, leading member during all of it. Much of his account, written with freelancer D'Orso, covers the same territory as David Halberstam's The Children Halberstam himself appears here briefly as a young reporter but Lewis imbues it with his own observations as a participant. He is at times so self-effacing in this memoir that he underplays his role in the events he helped create. But he has a sharp eye, and his account of Selma and the march that followed is vivid and personal he describes the rivalries within the movement as well as the enemies outside. After being forced out of SNCC because of internal politics, Lewis served in President Carter's domestic peace corps, dabbled in local Georgia politics, then in 1986 defeated his old friend Julian Bond in a race for Congress, where he still serves. Lewis notes that people often take his quietness for meekness. His book, a uniquely well-told testimony by an eyewitness, makes clear that such an impression is entirely inaccurate. (June) Copyright 1998 Publishers Weekly Reviews - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1998 April #2
Lewis, an Alabama sharecropper's son, went to Nashville to attend a Baptist college where, at the end of the 1950s, his life and the new civil rights movement became inexorably entwined. First came the lunch counter sit-ins; then the Freedom Rides; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Lewis's election to its chairmanship; the voter registration drives; the 1963 march on Washington; the Birmingham church bombings; the murders during the Freedom Summer; the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Bloody Sunday in Selma in 1964; and the march on Montgomery. Lewis was an active, leading member during all of it. Much of his account, written with freelancer D'Orso, covers the same territory as David Halberstam's The Children?Halberstam himself appears here briefly as a young reporter?but Lewis imbues it with his own observations as a participant. He is at times so self-effacing in this memoir that he underplays his role in the events he helped create. But he has a sharp eye, and his account of Selma and the march that followed is vivid and personal?he describes the rivalries within the movement as well as the enemies outside. After being forced out of SNCC because of internal politics, Lewis served in President Carter's domestic peace corps, dabbled in local Georgia politics, then in 1986 defeated his old friend Julian Bond in a race for Congress, where he still serves. Lewis notes that people often take his quietness for meekness. His book, a uniquely well-told testimony by an eyewitness, makes clear that such an impression is entirely inaccurate. (June) - School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 1998 December
YA-Lewis was active in the American civil rights movement almost from the beginning. He was there during the lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville in 1960, took part in the Freedom Rides of 1961, and, as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, spoke at the March on Washington in 1963. The list goes on. Like all memoirs, this one has its biases and limitations. However, for the insider's insights it provides, it is an indispensable resource.-Pamela B. Rearden, Centreville Regional Library, Fairfax County, VA Copyright 1998 School Library Journal
