Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi This riveting account of the murder of three civil rights crusaders in Mississippi offers new interviews with volunteers from that fateful summer and many never-before-seen photographs.
| TITLE | : | Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi |
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| RATING | : | 4.88 (267 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0823429202 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 144 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2014-03-14 |
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This riveting account of the murder of three civil rights crusaders in Mississippi offers new interviews with volunteers from that fateful summer and many never-before-seen photographs.
Editorial : From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up—Fifty years after the Freedom Summer murders, this meticulously researched, compellingly told account covers an incredible moment in history. Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were three young civil rights workers who decided to work for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) to confront bigotry in Mississippi and register African Americans to vote. They left for Meridian, accompanied by student volunteers from across the United States, (where only 6.4 percent of eligible African American voters were registered.) Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney were killed by Klansmen after being arrested. Their deaths deepened the conviction of the others and served to engender incredible strides in the forward momentum of the civil rights movement. This work gives a real sense of the time and place, the issues and the opposing sides, and
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