John Lewis : a life

Title John Lewis : a life
Names Greenberg, David.
Book Number DB125436
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation "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. 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." 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, John Lewis: A Life is the definitive biography of a man whose heroism during the Civil Rights movement helped to bring America a new birth of freedom." -- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller.
Narrator Sadzin, David.
Local Subject Exclusion - Male Narrator - MN
Exclusion - Long Book - LO
Civil & political rights - 323
Biography and Autobiography - BIO
Biography - Historical - BIH
Black Interest - BLK
BLACK NON-FICTION - BLN
BLACK HISTORY - BLH
History - United States - HUS
History, U.S. - 20th Century - HUT
Politics - POL
Southern Interest - SOU
Southern Non-Fiction - SNF
Exclusion - Strong Language - ST
LC Subject African American civil rights workers - Biography
Legislators - United States - Biography
Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century
Legislators - United States
African American legislators
African American men
Informational works
Biographies
Nonfiction
Call Number 323.092 ANF
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2024 9781797185217 2024
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