Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Bruce Watson

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

Bruce Watson

384 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A majestic history of the summer of '64, which forever changed race relations in America In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Fr...

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