His truth is marching on: John Lewis and the power of hope
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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. 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. Integral to Lewis's commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God. 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.
Meacham, J., & Lewis, J. (2020). His truth is marching on: John Lewis and the power of hope. First edition. New York, Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Meacham, Jon and John Lewis. 2020. His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope. New York, Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Meacham, Jon and John Lewis, His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope. New York, Random House, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Meacham, Jon, and John Lewis. His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope. First edition. New York, Random House, 2020.
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