Freedom Summer

Name: Freedom Summer
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ISBN: 9780195064728

ISBN-10: 0195064720

ISBN-13: 9780195064728

Edition: 1990 (Reprint)

Authors: Doug McAdam

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In June 1964, over one thousand volunteers--most of them white, northern college students--arrived in Mississippi to register black voters and staff "freedom schools" as part of the Freedom Summer campaign organized by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Within ten days, three of them were murdered; by the summer's end, another had died and hundreds more had endured bombings, beatings, and arrests. Less dramatically, but no less significantly, the volunteers encountered a "liberating" exposure to new lifestyles, new political ideologies, and a radically new perspective on America and on themselves. Films such as Mississippi Burning have attempted to document this episode in the…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/27/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 8.50" wide x 5.51" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English