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

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

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Lewis, John, 1940-2020

Description

xii, 354 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"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

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-338) and index.

Contents

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

Sc E 21-745

ISBN

9781984855022
1984855026

LCCN

2020024320

OCLC

1155073657

Author

Meacham, Jon, author.

Title

His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope / Jon Meacham ; afterword by John Lewis.

Publisher

New York : Random House, [2020]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Gender group: Men

Nationality/regional group: Tennesseans

Occupational/field of activity group: University and college administrators

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-338) and index.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Added Author

Lewis, John, 1940-2020, writer of afterword.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-745

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