The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
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“Atonce narrative history, family chronicle and personal memoir…[a] luminous work of investigation and introspection.”-Wall Street Journal National Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis’sown family history that shifts our understanding of the larger American storySitting beneath a stained glass window dedicated to his grandmother in the Atlanta church where his family had prayed for generations, preeminent American historian David Levering Lewis was struck by the great lacunae in what he could know about his own ancestors. He vowed to excavate their past and tell their story.There is no singular American story. Yet the Lewis family contains many defining ones. David Levering Lewis’slineage leads him to the Kings and Belvinses, two white slaveholding families in Georgia to the Bells, a free persons of color slaveholding family in South Carolina and to the Lewises, an upfrom-slavery black family in Georgia.Lewis’sfather, John Henry Lewis Sr., set Lewis on the path he pursues, introducing him to W. E. B. Du Bois and living by example as Thurgood Marshall’scollaborator in a key civil rights case in Little Rock. In The Stained Glass Window, Lewis reckons with his legacy in full, facing his ancestors and all that was lost, all the doors that were closed to them.In this country, the bonds of kinship and the horrific fetters of slavery are bound up together. The fight for equity, the loud echoes of the