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

Freedom summer : (other title)

Watson, Bruce, 1953- (author.).

Summary:

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 Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life.

Record details

ISBN: 9780143119432
ISBN: 9780670021703
ISBN: 0670021709
ISBN: 0143119435
Physical Description: 369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Viking, [2010]
Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-351) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"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" -- Interlude, "another so-called freedom day" -- Book two, "a bloody peace written in the sky" -- "Walk together, children" -- "The summer of our discontent" -- "Lay by time" -- "The stuff democracy is made of" -- "Give unto them beauty for ashes".