1998-09-20T12:02:30-04:00
Then we walked back in the other direction, as another end of the house began to lift. And so it went, back and forth, fifteen children walking with the wind, holding that trembling house down with the weight of. 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). Lewis, the child of sharecroppers, grew up in Pike County, Alabama, during the heyday of segregation in the American South.
https://images.c-span.org/Files/b29/19980920123818002.jpgPresident Clinton was seated on the dias but did not speak. Rep. Lewis spoke about his autobiography Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, in which he described his leadership of the Nashville Movement and other aspects of his life and career. He first won a seat in Congress in 1986. He was shown signing copies of his book afterwards. Ms. Larned, author of Stone Soup for the World, talked about her experiences in the civil rights movement. Students also spoke about civil rights.Walking With The Wind Story
President Clinton was seated on the dias but did not speak. Rep. Lewis spoke about his autobiography Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the…read more
President Clinton was seated on the dias but did not speak. Rep. Lewis spoke about his autobiography Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, in which he described his leadership of the Nashville Movement and other aspects of his life and career. He first won a seat in Congress in 1986. He was shown signing copies of his book afterwards. Ms. Larned, author of Stone Soup for the World, talked about her experiences in the civil rights movement. Students also spoke about civil rights. close
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