A biography about civil rights leader and longtime U.S. Congressman John Lewis written using interviews with Lewis and his family and research into the civil rights movement.

Overture: the last march -- A hard life, a serious life: Troy, Alabama, beginnings to 1957 -- The spirit of history: Nashville, Tennessee, 1957-1960 -- Soul force: the Freedom Rides, 1961 -- In the image of God and democracy: Birmingham and Washington, 1963 -- We are going to make you wish you was dead: Freedom Summer and Atlantic City, 1963-1964 -- I'm going to die here: Selma, Alabama, 1965 -- This country don't run on love: New York, Memphis, Los Angeles, 1966-1968 -- Epilogue: against the rulers of the darkness.