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.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Suffrage > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "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".