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John Lewis: A Life (Large Print Edition)

John Lewis: A Life (Large Print Edition)

Greenberg, David

Hardcover

Biographies General20th Century United States HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1420523147
ISBN13: 9781420523140
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Published: Apr 30 2025
Pages: 1302
Weight: 3.00
Height: 1.89 Width: 5.67 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Pulitzer Prize

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.


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.

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