05134cam a2200889 4500 1714409523 TxAuBib 20241115120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781982143015 1982143010 B0CV22WHFX Amazon 99d57679-6043-4206-9783-436f2fa0102f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10480506 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Greenberg, David, 1968- John Lewis [Libby eBook] : A Life. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 50MB. student nonviolence coordinating committee. books about african american experience. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. books about black communities. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. african american biographies. books about black experience. african american history. Voter Education Project. united states politics. civil rights biography. racial discrimination. United States History. the beloved community. walking with the wind. institutional racism. March On Washington. Political Biography. Black History Month. civil rights leader. American Politics . racial segregation. political activism. Martin Luther King. archival documents. president clinton. american history. racial prejudice. civil rights era. peaceful protest. black experience. Racial Equality. Social Activism. Hillary Clinton. racial violence. race in america. systemic racism. Race relations. Social Justice. Freedom Riders. "good trouble". Black history. black studies. bloody sunday. diverse books. racial equity. Bill Clinton. Barack Obama. US politics. racial bias. us history. HTML:<b>A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, "the conscience of the Congress," drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.</b><br /> Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a Freedom Rider who helped to integrate bus stations in the South, a leader of the Nashville sit-in movement, the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, and the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he made into one of the major civil rights organizations. He may be best remembered as the victim of a vicious beating by Alabama state troopers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he nearly died.<br /> <br /> Greenberg's biography traces Lewis's life through the post-Civil Rights years, when he headed the Voter Education Project, which enrolled millions of African American voters across the South. The book reveals the little-known story of his political ascent first locally in Atlanta, and then as a member of Congress. Tapped to be a part of the Democratic leadership in Congress, he earned respect on both sides of the aisle for the sacrifices he had made on behalf of nonviolent integration in the South and came to be known as the "conscience of the Congress."<br /> <br /> Thoroughly researched and dramatically told, Greenberg's biography captures John Lewis's influential career through documents from dozens of archives, interviews with hundreds of people who knew Lewis, and long-lost footage of Lewis himself speaking to reporters from his hospital bed following his severe beating on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. With new details about his personal and professional relationships, <i>John Lewis: A Life</i> is the definitive biography of a man whose heroism during the Civil Rights movement helped to bring America a new birth of freedom. Biography & Autobiography. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-11-15 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=99d57679-6043-4206-9783-436f2fa0102f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=99d57679-6043-4206-9783-436f2fa0102f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=99d57679-6043-4206-9783-436f2fa0102f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)