Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement / John Lewis with Michael D'Orso.

Includes index.

Contenidos: Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue xv

Part I: Coming Up
“That Was Some Hard Times” 3
2. A Small World, a Safe World 16
3. Pilot Light 32

Part II: Nashville
“The Boy From Troy” 57
5. Soul Force 71
6. “Nigras, Nigras Everywhere!” 90

Part III: Freedom Ride
“This Is the Students” 115
8. Last Supper 130
9. Mr. Greyhound 146

Part IV: SNCC
10. Raise Up the Rug 175
11. “We March Today” 202
12. “Keep Your Stick Down” 232

Part V: “Uhuru”
“Feel Angry With Me” 261
14. Freedom Fighters 283
15. Into Selma 300

Part VI: Going Down
16. Bloody Sunday 335
17. De‑Election 363
18. “Why?” 393

Part VII: Home
19. The New South 425
20. Old Ghosts 452
21. Onward 480

Index 504

Walking with the Wind is the powerful memoir of John Lewis, a key figure in the American Civil Rights Movement and longtime U.S. Congressman. The book chronicles his life from growing up as the son of Alabama sharecroppers to becoming a national leader in the struggle for racial equality.

Lewis recounts pivotal moments of the movement, including:

The Nashville sit-ins

Freedom Rides

The March on Washington

"Bloody Sunday" in Selma

His leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

And his later work as a member of Congress

The memoir offers a unique, insider’s view of the Civil Rights Movement, told with honesty, moral clarity, and personal reflection. It also delves into the philosophy of nonviolence and the spiritual conviction that fueled Lewis’s activism.

The title metaphor—“walking with the wind”—comes from a childhood story where Lewis helped hold down a house in a windstorm by leaning into the wind, a symbol of standing firm in the face of adversity.