His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
"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 was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr. A believer in hope above all else, Lewis learned from a young age that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy, a biblical imperative, and a transforming reality. At the age of four, Lewis, ambitious to become a preacher, practiced by preaching to the chickens he took care of. When his mother cooked one of the chickens, the boy refused to eat it--his first act of non-violent protest. Integral to Lewis's commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God, and an unshakable belief in the power of hope. Meacham calls Lewis "as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the nation-state in the eighteenth century. He did what he did--risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful--not in spite of America, but because of America, and not in spite of religion, but because of religion"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
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.
Item details
- ISBN: 1984855042
- ISBN: 9781984855046
- ISBN: 9781984855039
- ISBN: 9781984855022
- ISBN: 0593241827
- ISBN: 9780593241820
- ISBN: 1984855026
- ISBN: 9781984855022
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Physical Description:
xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2020]
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- Most Copies: 4 / 5.0
- Top Circs: 2 / 5.0
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-338) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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