His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope / Jon Meacham ; afterword by John Lewis.
"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader...
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New York :
Random House,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Overture: The last march
- A hard life, a serious life: Troy, Alabama: beginnings to 1957
- The spirit of history: Nashville, Tennessee: 1957-60
- Soul force: the Freedom Rides: 1961
- In the image of God and democracy: Birmingham and Washington: 1963
- We are going to make you wish you was dead: Freedom Summer and Atlantic City: 1963-64
- I'm going to die here: Selma, Alabama: 1965
- This country don't run on love: New York, Memphis, Los Angeles: 1966-68
- Epilogue: Against the rulers of the darkness.