Description
First paperback edition of Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, signed by Congressman John Lewis.
Octavo, xvii, 526pp. Illustrated paperback, title printed on front cover and spine. Stated “First Harvest Edition,” with a full letter line. Rubbing to text block, some wear to tips, previously read copy. Laid-in flyer for the Million Family March, held in Washington D.C. on October 16, 2000. Signed on the title page: “Keep the faith. Best Wishes, John Lewis. 11-4-2000.”
John Lewis (1940-2020) served in the United States House of Representatives from 1987-2020, representing Georgia’s 5th Congressional District. He was a lifelong civil rights activist, helping to organize the March on Washington in 1963, and he led the first of three marches from Selma to Montgomery across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.
