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