03/30/2021
Walking With The Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. Inscribed by Rep. John Lewis to Ken Bertram.
"An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement...[T]his is a gripping first-hand account of the fight for civil rights and the courage it takes to change a nation.
In 1957, a teenaged boy named John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama for Nashville, the epicenter of the struggle for civil rights in America. Lewis’s adherence to nonviolence guided that critical time and established him as one of the movement’s most charismatic and courageous leaders. Lewis’s leadership in the Nashville Movement—a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville using sit-in techniques based on the teachings of Gandhi—set the tone for major civil rights campaigns of the 1960s. Lewis traces his role in the pivotal Selma marches, Bloody Sunday, and the Freedom Rides. Inspired by his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis’s vision and perseverance altered history. In 1986, he ran and won a congressional seat in Georgia, and remained in office, continuing to enact change, until his death in 2020" (from the publisher).
This VG softcover copy is square and clean save for the inscription to the half title page, with brushes of corner wear. PM interest.
The recipient would appear to be Col USMC Ken Bertram, Ret. "Dr. Bertram retired as Colonel, Marine Corps after a 24-year career in the U.S. Army. Dr. Bertram’s assignments included: Commander, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Chief of Staff, USAMRMC; Director, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs USAMRMC; and Chief, Hematology/Medical Oncology Service at Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC). Dr. Bertram’s military honors include two Legion of Merit awards, the Army’s Surgeon General’s “A” Proficiency Designator in Hematology/Oncology, and the Order of Military Medical Merit."
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