Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
by:
Bruce Watson (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670021703 (0670021709)
Publish date: June 10th 2010
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
American,
Adult,
African American,
Politics,
American History,
Social Movements,
Social Justice,
Race
Most of what I have read about the Summer of 1964 has focused on the murder of the three civil rights workers. What I have never really read was what this book delivers-a comprehensive overview of Mississippi, summer of 1964, and the volunteers that flooded the state.So many new to me facts were pre...
Most of what I have read about the Summer of 1964 has focused on the murder of the three civil rights workers. What I have never really read was what this book delivers-a comprehensive overview of Mississippi, summer of 1964, and the volunteers that flooded the state.So many new to me facts were pre...
Summer of 1964, I was sitting in my diapers, sniffing the Topanga Canyon breezes and watching the snakes and tarantulas go by, so I think I can be forgiven for not knowing what was going on in Mississippi. If you've seen the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, you know about the three young men, two whit...