![]() ![]() He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. He was a lifelong civil rights activist, helping to organize the March on Washington in 1963, and he led the first of three marches from Selma to Montgomery across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965. Forty years ago, a teenaged boy stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America, where he has remained to this day, committed still to the nonviolent ideals of his mentor Martin Luther King and the movement they both served. ![]() Lewis, the child of sharecroppers, grew up in Pike County, Alabama, during the heyday of segregation in the American South. 4-21-07." John Lewis (1940-2020) served in the United States House of Representatives from 1987-2020, representing Georgia's 5th Congressional District. John Lewis’s 1998 memoir, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, written with Mike D’Orso, is an intimate firsthand account of the US Civil Rights Movement (CRM). ![]() Signed on the title page: "To Libby, Keep the faith, Best Wishes, John Lewis. In the publisher's near fine dust jacket, $26.00 on front flap, faint shelf wear, an attractive example. ![]() Laid-in postcard for an Atlanta History Center lecture and book signing event. Light foxing to outer edge of text block, otherwise fine. The first printing, with a full number line on the copyright page. Gray hardcover, title stamped in gilt on spine. First edition, first printing of Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, signed by Congressman John Lewis. ![]()
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