His Truth Is Marching On John Lewis and the Power of Hope #9780593400173

Chapter OneA Hard Life, a Serious LifeTroy, Alabama: Beginnings to 1957Work and put your trust in God, and God’s gonna take care of his children. God’s gonna take care of his children.—Oft-repeated counsel from Willie Mae Carter Lewis, John’s motherCostly grace . . . is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.—Dietrich Bonhoeffer For J…