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Format:

Book

Author:

Haskins, James, 1941-2005, author.

Title:

The story of civil rights hero John Lewis / by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson ; additional material by Kathleen Benson ; with illustrations by Aaron Boyd.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Lee & Low Books Inc., [2018]

Description:

64 pages illustrations ; 21 cm.

Summary:

Presents a biography of Congressman John Lewis, whose work for civil rights includes chairing the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and demonstrating on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Series:

The story of...?

Subjects:

Lewis, John, 1940 February 21- -- Juvenile literature.

United States. Congress. House -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Legislators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African American legislators -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African American civil rights workers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature.

Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Other Author:

Benson, Kathleen, author.

Boyd, Aaron, 1971- illustrator.

Other Title:

Civil rights hero John Lewis

John Lewis

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-63).

Contents:

Walking with the wind -- Learning to preach -- Sharecropping -- Getting in the way -- Mohandas K. Gandhi -- The march on Washington -- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- Trouble in Selma -- The black church and the Civil Rights movement -- On the bridge -- John Lewis in Congress -- Timeline.

LCCN:

2018040714

ISBN:

9781620148549

Other Number:

1050455796

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

775392

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

j BIO Lewis