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049			_aPDV
082			_a323.1196073092
092			_aLP 92 _bLewis, John
100	1		_aGreenberg, David, _d1968- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aJohn Lewis : _ba life / _cDavid Greenberg.
250			_aLarge print edition.
264		1	_aWaterville, Maine : _bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, _c2025.
264		4	_c2024.
300			_a1281 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
490	0		_aThorndike Press large print biography and memoir.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 1217-1275)
505	0		_aPart 1: Protest (1940-1968). The boy from Troy ; Nashville ; The sit-ins ; SNCC ; The freedom rides ; Open city ; The March on Washington ; One man, one vote ; Freedom Summer ; Africa ; Selma ; Revolt at Kingston Springs ; Lost in New York ; RFK -- Part 2: Politics (1969-2020). The Voter Education Project ; The first race ; ACTION ; Atlanta ; John vs. Julian ; On the Hill ; The Clinton years ; Ambitions ; In opposition ; "Because of you" ; Rock star ; Conscience of the Congress ; Lion in winter ; Invictus.
520			_aBorn 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. -- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aLewis, John, _d1940-2020.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bCongress. _bHouse _vBiography.
650		0	_aAfrican American civil rights workers _vBiography.
650		0	_aCivil rights workers _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aAfrican American legislators _vBiography.
650		0	_aLegislators _zUnited States _vBiography.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft.
655		7	_aLarge print books. _2lcgft
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