Freedom summer : the savage season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy / Bruce Watson.

Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi, while vividly portraying: the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state, the courageous black citizens and Nor...

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Main Author: Watson, Bruce, 1953-
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, [2010], ©2010.
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Physical Description:369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a "There is a moral wave building" -- "Not even past" -- Freedom street -- "The decisive battlefield for America" -- "It is sure enough changing" -- "The scars of the system" -- "Another so-called 'freedom day'" -- "Walk together, children" -- "The summer of our discontent" -- "Lay by time" -- "The stuff democracy is made of" -- "Give unto them beauty for ashes". 
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