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ISBN-10 :  0300274394 

ISBN-13 : 9780300274394

Author : Raymond Arsenault 

For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940–2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into “good trouble.”
 
In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis’s upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism as a Freedom Rider and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the “conscience of Congress.”
 
Both in the streets and in Congress, Lewis promoted a philosophy of nonviolence to bring about change. He helped the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders plan the 1963 March on Washington, where he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial. Lewis’s activism led to repeated arrests and beatings, most notably when he suffered a skull fracture in Selma, Alabama, during the 1965 police attack later known as Bloody Sunday. He was instrumental in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and in Congress he advocated for racial and economic justice, immigration reform, LGBTQ rights, and national health care.

John Lewis : in search of the beloved community 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1. “The Boy from Troy”
Chapter 2. Nashville
Chapter 3. In the Movement
Chapter 4. Riding to Freedom
Chapter 5. Mississippi Bound
Chapter 6. SNCC on the March
Chapter 7. “Bombingham” and Freedom Summer
Chapter 8. Atlantic City and Africa
Chapter 9. Selma and Bloody Sunday
Chapter 10. Leaving SNCC
Chapter 11. Transition and Tragedy
Chapter 12. Voting Rights and the New South
Chapter 13. Sweet Home Atlanta
Chapter 14. Mr. Lewis Goes to Washington
Chapter 15. Keeping the Dream Alive
Chapter 16. Politics and Remembrance
Chapter 17. The Conscience of Congress
Chapter 18. Good Trouble
Chapter 19. Perilous Times

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