John Lewis
A Life
From the Edmund Pettus Bridge to thirty years in Congress, without the sainthood.
David Greenberg had access to Lewis’s papers and to hundreds of interviews, and uses them to restore the strategist behind the moral icon: the young man who pushed the movement further than its leaders wanted at the 1963 March on Washington, the SNCC chairman ousted by his own organisation, and the congressman who spent thirty years converting protest into legislation. The beating at Selma is here, and so is everything that came after it.
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Susan Page
For the rest of his life, John Lewis bore a scar on his forehead from the police beating he endured during the 1965 civil rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.
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