Freedom Summer : The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy Hardcover - 2010
by Bruce Watson
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
A majestic history of the summer of '64, which forever changed race relations in America
In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom.
This remarkable chapter in American history, the basis for the controversial film Mississippi Burning, is now the subject of Bruce Watson's thoughtful and riveting historical narrative. Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi and the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state. Freedom Summer presents finely rendered portraits of the courageous black citizens-and Northern volunteers-who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life. Few books have provided such an intimate look at race relations during the deadliest days of the Civil Rights movement, and Freedom Summer will appeal to readers of Taylor Branch and Doug Blackmon.
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- Title Freedom Summer : The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
- Author Bruce Watson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 369
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2010
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0670021709I5N10
- ISBN 9780670021703 / 0670021709
- Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.44 x 1.27 in (23.37 x 16.36 x 3.23 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Civil rights workers - Mississippi - History, Civil rights movements - Mississippi -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009047211
- Dewey Decimal Code 323.119
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Summary
In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom.
This remarkable chapter in American history, the basis for the controversial film Mississippi Burning, is now the subject of Bruce Watson's thoughtful and riveting historical narrative. Using in- depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi and the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state. Freedom Summer presents finely rendered portraits of the courageous black citizens-and Northern volunteers-who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life. Few books have provided such an intimate look at race relations during the deadliest days of the Civil Rights movement, and Freedom Summer will appeal to readers of Taylor Branch and Doug Blackmon.
