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050	0	0	_aE840.8.L43 _bM43 2020
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100	1		_aMeacham, Jon, _eauthor. _950702
245	1	0	_aHis truth is marching on : _bJohn Lewis and the power of hope /
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2020]
300			_axii, 354 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 321-338) and index.
505	0		_aOverture: the last march -- A hard life, a serious life -- The spirit of history -- Soul force -- In the image of God and democracy -- We are going to make you wish you was dead -- I'm going to die here -- This country don't run on love -- Epilogue: against the rulers of the darkness.
520			_a"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr. A believer in hope above all else, Lewis learned from a young age that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy, a biblical imperative, and a transforming reality. At the age of four, Lewis, ambitious to become a preacher, practiced by preaching to the chickens he took care of. When his mother cooked one of the chickens, the boy refused to eat it--his first act of non-violent protest. Integral to Lewis's commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God, and an unshakable belief in the power of hope. Meacham calls Lewis "as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the nation-state in the eighteenth century. He did what he did--risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful--not in spite of America, but because of America, and not in spite of religion, but because of religion"--
600	1	0	_aLewis, John, _d1940-2020. _9104245
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bCongress. _bHouse _vBiography. _9104246
650		0	_aAfrican American civil rights workers _vBiography. _9104247
650		0	_aCivil rights workers _zUnited States _vBiography. _9104248
650		0	_aLegislators _zUnited States _vBiography. _9104249
650		0	_aProtest movements _zUnited States. _9104250
655		7	_aBiographies. _2fast _913266
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776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aMeacham, Jon, _tHis truth is marching on _bFirst edition. _dNew York : Random House, [2020] _z9781984855022 _w(DLC) 2020024321
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