Law Practice,
Civil Rights,
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Aug. 6, 2020
Walking with the Wind
Congressman John Lewis died on July 17 and, as this is being written, he lies in state at the U. S. Capitol. “Walking with the Wind” is the title of his 1998 book about the Civil Rights movement. The title is drawn from a childhood anecdote related by Lewis in the book’s prologue.
Paso Robles Branch
Michael C. Kelley
Judge
Civil/Probate/Appellate
Yale Law School
Congressman John Lewis died on July 17 and, as this is being written, he lies in state at the U. S. Capitol. "Walking with the Wind" is the title of his 1998 book about the Civil Rights movement. The title is drawn from a childhood anecdote related by Lewis in the book's prologue.
It was 1940s. Lewis was four and growing up in a community of sharecropper families in Pike County, Alabama. He and a group siblings and cousins, 15 or mo...
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