About the Program
United States Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) was a guest on Booknotes to talk about his memoir, "Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement." At the age of twenty-three, Congressman Lewis was a speaker at the March on Washington in August 1963 with Martin Luther King, Jr., organized peaceful protests and sit-ins, and organized the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's drive to organize voter registration during the Mississippi Freedom Summer. Mr. Lewis served on Atlanta's City Council before being elected to congress in 1986.