Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (about the American Civil Rights Movement)
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (about the American Civil Rights Movement)
Forty years ago, a teenaged boy stepped off a cotton farm in Alabama and into the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America, where he has remained to this day, committed still to the nonviolent ideals of his mentor Martin Luther King and the movement they both served.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9781476797717
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Civil rights movementNonviolent activismRacial justice
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(1999)
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