Andrew B. Lewis's Reviews
Reviews of Andrew’s Work
Dec.17.2009
Published by AP via the Huffington Post
he distills the vast trove of material on SNCC and the movement with a sure, skillful hand . . . . His portrait of Bob Moses, the philosopher-activist in a white T-shirt and bib...
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Dec.02.2009
Published by Chapter 16
unlike Taylor Branch's trilogy on the civil rights era, which lionizes King, Lewis focuses instead on the young activists and the way the early rush of triumph and sacrifice at...
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Nov.22.2009
Published by Sacremento
SNCC galvanized into an energetic and passionate organization. Lewis takes us on this tumultuous journey in a fact-based account of the movement’s moral and political dilemmas.
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Nov.08.2009
Published by Dallas
As debates about racial equality continue across the United States, despite (or perhaps because of) the ethnicity of President Barack Obama, a history professor leavens the...
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Oct.27.2009
Published by myshelf.com
For many of us the Civil Rights movement is epitomized by Martin Luther King, Jr. It is unfortunate that we seldom recall the contributions and sacrifices made by young men and...
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Oct.25.2009
Published by Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In "The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation," Andrew B. Lewis puts forward a collective portrait of this remarkable set of activists. . . ."The...
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Oct.25.2009
Published by Raleigh News & Observer
They formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a group that historian Andrew Lewis in "The Shadows of Youth" contends played a pivotal role in the dismantling of legal...
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About Andrew
Andy Lewis has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Richmond, and Hamilton College and been a fellow at Harvard University, National Academy of Education, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He has a Ph.d. in American history from the...
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