Social Policy, September 22nd, 1998
by John Lewis with Michael D'Orso, Simon & Schuster, 1998, 496pp., $26.00.
John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the early to mid-1960s, now serves as a Congressman from Atlanta and is a leader in the Democratic Party's House of Representatives caucus. His memoir is the powerful narrative of an African-American leader coming of age as the civil rights movement dramatically took center stage of American political life in the 1960s. The book also reveals the limits of direct action, whether nonviolent or not, as a strategy for fundamental social chang...
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