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Walking with the wind a memoir of the movement

"Lewis's role in the Nashville Movement - a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville through nonviolent sit-ins - made him a defining activist of his day and helped set the tone for the civil rights movement. Though he was repeatedly a victim of violence and intimidation, his belief i...

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Main Authors: Lewis, John, 1940-2020 (Author), D'Orso, Michael (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2015.
Edition:Simon & Schuster trade paperback edtion.
Subjects:
Lewis, John, > 1940-2020.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
African American legislators > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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