Journalists and other individuals were quick to point out that Lewis’ personal history was characterized by much action and little talk. He went on to accuse Lewis of being “All talk, talk, talk – no action or results. Trump, never one to allow a criticism to go untweeted, reached for his always handy phone on the eve of the Martin Luther King holiday and tweeted that Lewis should “spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to … mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results.”
In the wake of the presidential election of 2016 and reports that Russian hackers had influenced the outcome in favor of Donald Trump, Congressman John Lewis was quoted as saying “I don’t see the president-elect as a legitimate president” and that he would not be attending the inauguration. Georgia County To Replace Confederate Monument With John Lewis Statue A true American hero, his story is "destined to become a classic in civil rights literature." (Los Angeles Times) Lewis takes us from the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he led more than five hundred marchers on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." While there have been exceptional books on the movement, there has never been a front-line account by a man like John Lewis. Written with charm, warmth, and honesty, Walking with the Wind offers rare insight into the movement and the personalities of all the civil rights leaders-what was happening behind the scenes, the infighting, struggles, and triumphs. Arrested more than forty times and severely beaten on several occasions, he was one of the youngest yet most courageous leaders.
As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was present at all the major battlefields of the movement. The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. An eloquent, epic firsthand account of the civil rights movement by a man who lived it-an American hero whose courage, vision, and dedication helped change history.
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