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His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope

Title
  1. His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope / Jon Meacham ; afterword by John Lewis.
Published by
  1. New York : Random House, [2020]
Author
  1. Meacham, Jon

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  1. Lewis, John, 1940-2020
Description
  1. xii, 354 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  1. "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"--
Subject
  1. Lewis, John, 1940-2020
  2. Lewis, John, 1940-2020
  3. United States. Congress. House > Biography
  4. United States. Congress. House
  5. African American civil rights workers > Biography
  6. Civil rights workers > United States > Biography
  7. Legislators > United States > Biography
  8. Protest movements > United States
  9. African American civil rights workers
  10. Civil rights workers
  11. Legislators
  12. Protest movements
  13. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies.
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. Sc E 21-745
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-338) and index.
Author
  1. Meacham, Jon, author.
Title
  1. His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope / Jon Meacham ; afterword by John Lewis.
Publisher
  1. New York : Random House, [2020]
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Creator/contributor characteristics
  1. Gender group: Men
  2. Nationality/regional group: Tennesseans
  3. Occupational/field of activity group: University and college administrators
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-338) and index.
Local note
  1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Added author
  1. Lewis, John, 1940-2020, writer of afterword.
LCCN
  1. 2020024320
ISBN
  1. 9781984855022 hardcover
  2. 1984855026 hardcover
Research call number
  1. Sc E 21-745
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